38 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



Just outside the willows and alders that border the 

 stream and yet out of reach of the mowing machine are sure 

 to be found several conspicuous and easily recognized grasses. 

 Among them being the wild rye (Elymus Virginicus) and 

 the great nodding rye {E. Canadensis) sometimes five feet in 

 height and having a spike ten or twelve inches in length. 

 The genus Bromiis and also Panicularia are usually well rep- 

 resented in such places. 



The burnet {Sanguisorha Canadensis) with its unrose- 

 like spike of flowers though a member of the rose family is a 

 lover of the river bank and here also the searcher after our 

 native orchids may sometimes be rewarded by finding one or 

 the other of the purple fringed orchids {Habenaria grandi- 

 flora or H. psy codes). I was fortunate the past summer in 

 locating a station for the somewhat rare tubercled orchi'd 

 {Habenaria flava) in the bed of a stream in eastern Vermont. 



Space and time fail me to tell of all the finds a botanical 

 student may make when strolling "by the river's brim." 



Shiishan, N. Y. 



DAISIES. 



By Dr. W. W. Bailey. 



VERY wrong conceptions popularly prevail in regard to 

 the daisy. In the class-room these sometimes assume 

 a tragic fonn, as when the pupil with youthful temerity, 

 seeks to name a given plant by the index of his Manual. 

 Then, perhaps, name and description are suddenly discovered 

 to be discrepant. The lesson, is, however, a useful one and 

 the victim is very unlikely, unless endowed with great dull- 

 ness or "cheek"' to become mired again in the same puddle. 



The real English daisy, the "Day's-eye" of Chaucer, the 

 "wee crimson tipped flower" of Burns, is a modest little plant 

 but a few inches in height, stemless and with small heads of 

 white, pink or crimson florets. With us in America, it is 



