STENANTHIUM, 



AuGusTiFOLio Bunch Flower 



One of the most handsome and showy plants, 

 with wand like leafy stem and conduplicate 

 keeled leaves. Numerous flowers in compound 

 racemes, waving' like plumes in the wind. 

 Spikes of flower heads often five to seven 

 feet high. Flowers are polygamous, staminate, 

 pistillate and perfect on same plant. 



STRUTHIOPTERIS, 



Germanica Ostrich Fern 



STELLARIA, 



LONGiFOLiA Stickworts 



puBTvRA Chickzveed 



uiviGNOSA Starwort 



SYMPLOCARPUS, 



FOETiDUS Skunk Cabbage 



Tliis plant really has no season of rest. Flower 

 buds form in the fall as leaves drop away and 

 are constantly pushing upwards so that in the 

 first warm days of February they appear above 

 ground and by St. Patrick's day they are in full 

 bloom. It is the leader of the spring pageant 

 of flowers and insects find them out by the 

 fragrant smell they emit like unto old mustard 

 plasters and onions. Honey bees, banded flies 

 and millers patronize the flow^ers and often end 

 their lives there, as spiders spin a web across 

 the opening in spathe and leisurely feed on 

 the prisoners. Later the leaves appear and form 

 great tufted crowns. 



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