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Water- Trefoil, Menyanthes Vrifoliata. — A very beauti- 

 ful water plant with trifoliate leaves, somewhat fleshy, as 

 is the creeping and rooting stem; flowers handsome, white 

 tinged with bright rose, in a dense raceme on scapes about 

 a foot high. May be grown as a water plant in open and 

 sunny positions or in boggy ground on the margins of a 

 stream. Flowers in spring. 



THE LOGANIA FAMILY. 



Indian Pink, Spigelia Marylandica. — A showy native 

 plant growing afoot high, more or less ; with simple stem 

 and smooth, sessile, ovate-lauceolate leaves. Flowers in 

 terminal clusters, large, of a delicate rosy-red with yellow 

 throat and deep lanceolate lobes. In woods or sometimes 

 on railroad embankments in moist ground ; very beautiful 

 in masses when flowering. May be grown in moist places, 

 in rockeries, or on the margins of water. 



THE DOGBANE FAMILY. 



Dogbane, Apocynum androscemifolium. — A very loose 

 and spreading plant growing several feet high ; leaves ovate, 

 smooth ; flowers urn-like, small, white or tinted rose in 

 terminal cymes. Common on the margins of woods and 

 thickets. Will grow in any soil. 



Amsonia, A. Tahernosmmttana. — A modest and attractive 

 plant with simple, leafy stems growing eighteen inches or 

 two feet high, with willow-like leaves and terminal clusters 

 of pale blue flowers in summer. Fine for a rockery or for 

 borders of shrubberies. 



