THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 9 



I had never known arbutus by any other name than 

 "rough-leaf" till I was quite grown up. Then a friend sent 

 me a box of it under its proper name and my eyes were 

 opened. But I found one great difference in that growing in 

 New York State, and that found south of the Ohio. The 

 arbutus growing south is not fragrant. Another common 

 flower, called in different localities, dog-tooth violet, adder's 

 tongue and lamb's tongue, I found to be often white north of 

 the Ohio, while in Kentucky I have never found a white 

 specimen. There was no difference in other respects. 



I have never been able to find either skunk's cabbage or 

 cat-tails in Kentucky, though it is possible I have not looked 

 in the right places. 



I had often read in stories about checkerberries, partridge- 

 berries, boxberries and teaberries without having the slightest 

 inkling that it was our old friend wintergreen often called 

 "mountain tea" in the mountains of Kentucky. The wild ger- 

 anium I only knew as "wild alum" so called, probably, on ac- 

 count of the astringency of its roots. And I had read so often 

 when a little girl about the wind flower, and puzzled my brains 

 till I found out later that I had gathered quantities of them as 

 anemones. 



The Prince's pine I should never have recognized to be 

 another old friend, the pipsissewa, often called "rat's bane" 

 among the Kentucky people. Neither could I recognize in the 

 name jewel weed, the wild touch-me-not I had gathered in 

 childhood. Another puzzle vvas toad flax. If any one had 

 asked me if I knew that plant, I should unhesitatingly have re- 

 plied no, until I found another of its common names was but- 

 ter and eggs, and to hear that old time friend, milk weed, 

 called silk grass was more bewildering still. 



We have in the mountains of Kentucky, the spring 

 beauty, the yellow and purple wood sorrel, wake-robin, butter- 

 cup, evening primrose, crowfoot and the blood root honored 



