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avoid them. Fortunately they are sufficiently conspicuous to be 

 admired at a distance, many a newly cleared hill-side and wood- 

 border being lightened by their slender, torch-like racemes which 

 flash upon us as we travel through the country. The plant was 

 one of the many which the Indians believed to be efficacious for 

 snake-bites. The generic name is from cimex — a bug, and fug-are 

 — to drive away. 



CULVER'S ROOT. 



Veronica Virginica. Figwort Family. 



Stem. — Straight and tall ; from two to six feet high. Leaves. — Whorled ; 

 lance-shaped ; finely toothed. Flcnvcrs. — White ; small ; growing in slender 

 clustered spikes. Calyx. — Irregularly four or five-toothed. Corolla. — Four 

 or five-lobed. Stamens. — Two; protruding. Pistil. — One. 



The tall straight stems of the culver's root lift their slender 

 spikes in midsummer to a height that seems strangely at variance 

 with the habit of this genus. The small flowers, however, at 

 once betray their kinship with the speedwells. Although it is, 

 perhaps, a little late to look for the white wands of the black 

 cohosh, the two plants might easily be confused in the distance, 

 as they have much the same aspect and seek alike the cool re- 

 cesses of the woods. This same species grows in Japan and was 

 introduced into English gardens nearly two hundred years ago. 

 It is one of the many Indian remedies which were adopted by 

 our forefathers. 



PARTRIDGE VINE. 



Mitchella repens. Madder Family. 



Stems. — Smooth and trailing. Leaves. — Rounded; evergreen; veined 

 with white. Flowers. — White or pinkish; fragrant; in pairs. Calyx. — 

 Four-toothed. Corolla. — Funnel-form, with four spreading lobes ; bearded 

 within. Stamens. — Four. Pistil. — One, its ovary united Math that of its 

 sister flower ; its four stigmas linear. 



At all times of the year this little evergreen plant fulfils its 

 mission of adorning that small portion of the earth to which it 



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