104 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST, 



Here and there the train sped by isolated masses of 

 other flowers — the handsome flowers of the anemone 

 (Anemone Canadense) the brilhant painted cup (Castille- 

 jia) or the ox-ej^e daisy {Chrysanthemum leucanthenmm) . 

 I have never had an opportunity of gathering- the painted- 

 cup but there was no mistaking the plants. For a long 

 distance alow moist stretch was scarlet with them. Just 

 east of Kalamazoo we passed a sunn}^ slope covered with 

 the great white blossoms of Convolvulus spithamasus, a 

 plant so little known as to have no common name, appar- 

 ently. Its nearest of kin, the bindweed or wild morning- 

 glor3^ (C. sepium) is w^ell known in the North but this 

 plant seems not to be common. It delights in sunn3^ situ- 

 ations and spreads its blossoms all da\^ low down in the 

 grass. 



Canada was something of a disappointment. I saw 

 scarcely a noticable flower except the wild mustard ; but 

 that was everywhere. Some fields were one glare of the 

 yellow blossoms. I have seen the Canadian roadsides at 

 other seasons and know that they are able to produce ixs 

 showy flowers as an}', but the\^ were not in evidence in the 

 middle of June. 



Across New York State we found whole fields yellow 

 w^ith buttercups or white with daisies. Looking at the 

 latter it is difficult to realize that in the middle west this 

 plant is still something of a raritj^ and that it is occasion- 

 ally cultivated for its blossoms. Those to whom the daisy 

 is still a stranger, however, may be cautioned against 

 making its acquaintance. Its blossoms are certainlj' 

 handsome, but its weedy qualities are too great to be 

 overlooked. In New York the beard -tongue again ap- 

 peared and with it the Northern bedstraw {Galium bore- 

 ale). In the midst of a country in which these at present 

 predominate, the journey ended. 



