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ingly decorative ; it is also interesting to notice how 

 like they are to the leaves of the Anemonella thalic- 

 troides. 



Early Meadow-RTie. There is another quite common 

 Thaiictrum diokum. meadow-ruc {T. dioicum) which, it 

 seems to me, ought to be called wood rue, as it near- 

 ly always grows on the borders of the forest. This 

 variety is about eighteen inches tall, and bears in- 

 significant brownish-green flowers which fail to at- 

 tract one when they appear in late spring. 



Thorn-Apple. The thorn-apple, so called on ac- 

 Datura Stramonium, count of its rouud, green, tliorny 

 fruit, is one of the rankest-smell- 

 ing weeds in existence. It is 

 only necessary for one to crush 

 a leaf or stem between the fin- 

 gers to be thoroughly assured of 

 the fact that the weed is reptd- 

 sively rank — not attractively rank 

 like the onion. Memory recalls 

 a certain empty lot next to the 

 house in which I lived in Brook- 

 lyn where there was a rubbish 

 heap pretty well ornamented with this white-flow- 

 ered Datura. I transplanted some of the Aveed in 

 my garden, and was ridiculed for the bad taste dis- 

 played in liking such a rank thing ; but the flowers 



Thorn-Apple Blossom. 



