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white are delicately tinted with pink. I found this 

 variety quite plentiful in an old cemetery in Camp- 

 ton, N. H. The yarrow blooms from July until Oc- 

 tober. It has a pleasant herby smell. 

 Indian Tobacco. The Indian tobacco (from which is 

 Lobelia ivflata. obtained a noted quack medicine) is 

 one of the least interesting of our blue wild flow- 

 ers ; it is quite common in some of the poorest fields 

 of New York and Massachusetts. I never happened 

 to meet the plant in New Hampshire — one does not 

 always find everything in one spot, and as the search 

 was confined to a limited region in the latter State, I 

 have no doubt that several varieties of Lobelia might 

 be found there — but there is plenty of Indian tobac- 

 co in the vicinity of Boston. This variety grows 

 about one foot high and bears on the tip of the stem 

 a number of purple flowers which resemble the culti- 

 vated variety called L. erinus^ which comes to us from 

 the Cape of Good Hope. On the banks of the Pemige- 

 wasset River, in shady places where the ground is wet, 

 will be found the smaller Z. Kalmii • this variety 

 bears pretty little blue-purple flowers — much prettier 

 and bluer than Indian tobacco. L. syphilitica is the 

 largest variety of this flower, but, in my estimation, 

 not the prettiest. Its flowers are pale and purplish ; 

 and, although they are arranged showily on a stalk 

 about twenty inches high, they can not be called 



