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From May 10th to 20th. 



Flowerine: almond. Gardens. 



Rosacece. 



Aim/f/dnhif!, (Sjm. Pruniis,) 



Sint'iisis rosea, 

 Spirwa Thunher(/u\ Thunber^'s spira'a. Gardens. 



var. FJorc plcnn. Bridal wreath. '• 



Korri'i Japonica, Corehorus. " b. till Nov. 



Pi/nff! Malus Parhmanii, Japanese ci'ab. Lawns. 



Cultivated varieties of thepear, apple, peach, plum, iiitil I'Oth tlie quince. 



RhaninacefV. 



I^lianinus alnifoliu. Swamp buekthorn 



Illecebracea'. 



Scleranthus animus, Knawel. 



Euphorbiacew . 



Euphorbia Cypai'issias, Garden spurg'e. 



Olearew. 



*Fi'axinus Americana. White ash. 



viridis, Green ash. 



Aracew. 



Arisa'ma trii>hyllum, Indian turnip. 



Laut^acea'. 



Sassafras officinale, .Sassafras. 



Swami)s : infreijuent. 



A weed in gravellj- places. 



< 'om. : escaped from cai-dens. 



Ivich, moist woods ; common. 

 Alono; streams or in swamps. 



Ainetitacew . 



Snlinhurut Adiantifolia,, Maiden-hair ti'ee 



Thy^HeUeacew. 



Daphne Cneorum. Daphne. 



Wet woods; conunon. 

 Rich woods ; common. 

 Lawns. 

 (Tardens. 

 From May 20th to June 1st. 



E^ncacea'. 



tGaylussacia resinosa, Black hucklel)erry. Connnon in dry soil. 



Vaccinium vacillans, Low blueberry. 



corymbosum. Swamp blueberr_v. Com. in swami)S and lowi^'rds. 



var. atrococcum, " " " " '• 



*G. B Emerson, in liis "Trees and Shrubs of Mass.," states that " an ash-leaf ruhl)e(l upon tlic 

 sweHings caused liy mosquitoes removes the itching and soreness immediately." 



t A white variety of this species is occasionally brought from the neighboring towns for sale, 

 l)ut in small quantities. A small tract of land in Berkley about lifty feet square has borne au annual 

 crop of perhaps a ((uart of white huckleberries for forty years or more. A few bushes bearing the 

 ordinary black huckl berry are interspersed with those hearing the white variety. The white van- 

 etj- has also been found in East Fairhaven, 



