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the branch which bears it spring also five un- 

 opened buds, each protected by the glandular 

 green sepals. From the very center of a double 

 score or more of clustered yellow stamens, the 

 pistil rises, its cylindrical head now covered 

 with granular grains of pollen left by some vis- 

 iting bee. 



The leaves, compound, each of them with five 

 to seven thick, strongly veined, ovate leaflets, 

 are well worthy in appearance the flowers they 

 accompany. The odor pleasing, yet not deli- 

 cate, is attractive to bee, fly and occasionally to 

 beetle. Growing in isolated clumps, sparingly 

 in this upland woodland pasture, this wild mem- 

 ber of the Rosacese family is truly typical of 

 June and well worthy the homage of all ramb- 



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lers who seek the beautiful in nature. 



The third flower which I have gathered is less 

 common than the other two, and yet is often met 

 with in open upland woods. It is the moth 

 mullen, 25 a member of the family Scrophular- 

 iacese, and its flowers are more delicate than 

 either those of the thistle or the rose. The one 



26 Fer6ascwm blattaria L. 



