6 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



Dracopis is unique in the list for its color. Its bright 

 orange rays with red-brown bases are by far the most brilliant 

 of all. The pink of the Sophora is only slightly tinged with 

 purple, the pink of the Schrankia is a little more so, but the 

 color range of the others is of a greenish white to purple 

 through blue. 



Croton monanthogynus, one of the most fragrant plants 

 here, has inconspicuous greenish flowers, but the odor arising 

 from the bruised herb as one walks over the rocky prairie 

 where it grows profusely at midsummer is very pleasant, but 

 I was moved to laughter when I encountered it down here l< it 

 the first time, for there was revealed to me the secret of the 

 "wonderful Indian Remedies" in generous sample pockets 

 which the only pupil of the Great Indian Medicine Man left at 

 the door in person every summer up north, and I could hear 

 again the "performance at eight o'clock." 



AN INTERESTING CASE OF SEASONAL 



INVERSION 



By Walter Albion Squires. 



MOST plants have a well-defined season for growth and 

 an equally well-defined season for rest. The degree of 

 tenacitv with which our various plants cling to their own par- 

 ticular time of year for growth and for rest has never been 

 systematically studied, and offers a most interesting field for 

 original investigation. It is a fact well known to florists that 

 certain plants stubbornly resist all efforts to force them, while 

 other plants take quite readily to the florist's encouragement 

 and reward him with abundant unseasonable blossoming. 



Over most of our country autumn and winter is the period 

 of rest for plants, while spring and summer is the time of 



