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from June to August. Its stem is rather thick, often reddish in 

 colour ; and the leaves are large, pinnate, with from five to nine 

 ovate, irregularly-toothed leaflets, two or three inches long, and 

 also several smaller leaflets at the base of the stalk or between the 



The Meadow Sweet. 



larger ones. Each of the little flowers has a five-lobed, free calyx ; 

 five petals ; numerous stamens ; and an ovary that ripens into 

 from five to eight little twisted capsules. 



The Burnet Saxifrage [Pimpinella Saxifraga), of the order 

 Umbelliferce, is a common plant in dry pastures, and is very generally 

 distributed. Its stem is from one to two feet high, and but little 



