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Indigo (Indij^ofera Anil)— A small shrub, 

 three feet high. Leaves accompanied with 

 oblong spoon-shaped leaflets. Flowers small, 

 purplish, followed by bow-shaped cylindri- 

 cal pods, half an inch long, and four to six 

 seeded. It is found in fields and waste 

 ground, probably the remains of former cul- 

 tivation. 



Lotus (Lotus Tacobffius — An erect evergreen 

 plant, with slender, round, downy stems 

 with three or four flowers collected at end of 

 long stalks. Flowers reddish brown, followed 

 by pods in branches of three or four with a 

 bristle-like point. Is looked on as a weed, 

 although freque.^tly found as a garden 

 tlowrr. 



Evening Primrose (CEnothera Longiflora) — 

 An erect plant, covered with dense soft hairs. 

 Flowers yellow and sweet scented; only open 

 at night and close with the morning sun. 

 Seed case is four-angled. Another species 

 found at St. Davids and Tuckerstown ((E. 

 Humifusa) is half shrubby, leaves silvery, 

 flowers one inch in diameter, orange yellow. 



Night-hloomiag Cereus (Cactus Grandiflorus) 

 affords after sunset one of the most magnifi- 

 cent flowtrs in the whole vegetable kingdom. 

 Its long rope-like stems ascend trees and 

 walls and attain quite a height. The flower, 

 rtvse-pii?k white, invariablj' closes before day- 

 break, 



Fidd Madder (Sherardia Arvensis) is a 

 prostrate hispid plant, with stems one foot 

 long, leaves half an inch long, flowers pink, 

 followed by dry seeds separating into twin 

 divisions. Foj^ind at Salt Kettle. 



Chicory (Cichorium Intybus)— Erect, rigid, 

 tough, angular stem with bare spreading 

 branches Heads sessile, in pairs and florets 



