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depths it is misty-looking. The color of the anthers 

 and the stamens, five in number, are surprisingly 



pretty when viewed 

 through a mag- 

 nifying glass ; 

 the stems and 

 leaves are wiry 

 and tough ; but 

 the tenderer 

 round leaf, from 

 which the plant gets its botan- 

 ical name, springs directly from 

 the root and dies early. 



Self-heal. The very famil- 



Brin.eiia vulgaris, j^r rusty - green 



heads of this small blue (more 

 correctly blue-purple) flower 

 called self - heal are 

 ever present be- 

 side the road and 

 on the edge of 

 All summer long 

 the tireless little flower blossoms 

 almost anywhere we may hap- 

 pen to look. It is provoking to see a common thing 

 so constantly and yet not to know its name ; and I 

 venture to say there are but few of' us who recognize 



the pasture. 



Brunella 



