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to be excellent in assisting measles " to come out " on 

 the children who are suffering with it in an incipient 

 stage. Alas for the children ! — the cure is nearly as 

 bad as the disease. Tansj grows everywhere, and one 

 can easily lind it by the 

 road or in the field. It 

 came here from Europe. I 

 never found any in the 

 Femigewasset Valley, l)at it 

 is common in every village in 

 Massachusetts ; it is also plenti- 

 ful in the region of the Catskill 

 Mountains. Its aromatic smell 

 is far from unpleasant. 



Wild Carrot. The wild carrot, 

 Davcus Carota. sometimes called 

 bird's nest, is a familiar flow^er 

 of every wayside and pasture. 

 Its head of grayish green-white 

 flowers is broad and concave 

 at the top, and before it has 

 quite reached maturity it is 



hollowed exactly like a bird's nest ; so the flower is 

 appropriately named. Under the magnifying glass 

 the tiny flowers at once lose all appearance of confu- 

 sion, and reveal a regularity of growth quite unex- 

 pected by the casual observer ; the little petals are 



Wild Carrot. 



