Early August 



mens, the rather ugly female flowers with 

 their dull green centres occupying a less 

 conspicuous position below. This is on- 

 ly in some cases, however ; at times the 

 staminate and pistillate blossoms are' 

 found on separate plants. 



The edges of the pond are blue with the 

 long, close spikes of the pickerel - weed. 

 Over the thickets on its shore the clematis 

 has flung a veil of feathery white. A tan- 

 gle of golden threads with little bunched 

 white flowers show that the dodder is at 

 its old game of living on its more self-re- 

 liant neighbors. From erect, finger-like 

 clusters comes the sweet, spicy breath of 

 the Clethra. 



Where the white dust of the road pow- 

 ders the wayside plants rise the coarse 

 stalks of the evening primrose. These are 

 hung with faded-looking flowers whose 

 unsuspectedly fragrant petals gleamed 

 through the moonlit darkness of last 

 night. Among them we find a fragile, 



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