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ground and the edges of fields. The Stock {Matt/iiola 

 incana) with purple blossoms is abundant along the sandy 

 margin of the bays, and in sea shore nooks and crannies. A 

 plant known as the Stinging Thistle {Argenione Mexicand) with 

 yellow blossoms, and easily mistaken for a yellow poppy, is 

 common at all seasons in old worn out grounds and waste 

 places. The flower itself reminds one of the EscJischolzia. 



There are four species of Evening Primrose, the {CEnothera 

 longiflora) with yellow flowers three inches in diameter, not 

 uncommon in waste land, {CE. sinuata) with smaller yellow 

 flowers, common in fields and roadsides, {CE. rosea) with rosy 

 flowers three-quarters of an inch in diameter, found in grass* 

 lands, and (ffi". Jiuniifusd) with Orange yellow blossoms, found 

 on the sea shore. The Four o'clock plant {Mirabilis Jalapd) 

 opens its brilliant flowers at four p.m., and closes early next 

 morning. Although red is its prevailing colour, other varieties 

 are by no means uncommon, as white, yellow, and white with a 

 red centre. Its blossoms are profuse, and continue unfolding 

 all through spring and summer. The Golden Rod {Solidago 

 senipervirens) is as elsewhere in America a very common plant 

 along the shore, by waysides and fence walls, always showy 

 from its long, compact panicle of golden yellow flowers. Two 

 Salvias {S. splcndens and 5. purpurea) with respectively scarlet 

 and purple flowers, are cultivated, whilst [S. coccmea) with very 

 showy scarlet flowers, three-quarters of an inch long, is common 

 on dry hills and wayside banks, and {S. serotina) clothed with a 

 whitish pubescence, and bearing white flowers a quarter of an 

 inch long, is found in similar localities. Both of these blossom 

 from April to October. 



The Barbadoes Fence {Potnciana pulc/i^rrima) with its 

 orange-red flowers and long stamen and style keeps in full 

 bloom from November to April, with straggling blossoms all 

 through summer, is very pretty and showy, and being almost a 

 shrub, forms a charming hedge when cultivated. The Red 

 Justicia {J. lurida sanguhied) is common, although originally 



