DULCHIUM, 



SPATHACEUM Spiked Sedge 



ECHINODORUS, 



RADiCANS Urchin's Sack 



ECHIUM, 



VULGARIS Viper's Bugloss 



ECHONOCYSTIS, 



LOBATo Balsam Apple 



A beautiful rapid-growing climber with triple 

 tendrils, and is cross fertilized largely by 

 beetles. The name means hedgehog, in allusion 

 to the armed fruit. 



ELEOCHARIS, 



R0ST12LLATA Spiked Rush 



ELODES, 



ViRGiNiCA Marsh Wort 



EPIPHEGUS, 



ViRGiNiANA Beech Drops 



Saprophytic plants, upper open flowers are 

 sterile, the lower ones which never expand, 

 accomplish the continuance of their kind. 



EPIGOEA, 



REPiiNS Trailing Arbutus 



It is hard to realize the plant with its creeping 

 habits is actually a shrub. They were the first 

 flowers to greet our Pilgrim Fathers, and are 

 peddled every spring under the title of the 

 Plymouth Mayflower. 



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