TIIKEE JUNE-TIME FLOWERS. 99 



in hand is just in the prime of its blossoming 

 period, and bears a dozen or more cream col- 

 ored flowers, nodding from short peduncles 

 about the middle of a long, wand-like stem. 

 Those below have already "shed their fragrance 

 on the desert air," and the fruiting capsules 

 which have resulted each contain many tiny 

 seeds harbingers of future mullen stalks. The 

 odor of the moth mullen is delicate and pleas- 

 ing, sufficient to attract unto itself many a form 

 of insect life. One which is always to be found 

 upon it and upon its larger congener, the great 

 mullen, is a small, thick-bodied, grayish snout 

 beetle. 26 One or two are clinging to the flowers 

 of the plant I have plucked. 



Three June-time flowers thistle, rose and 

 mullen growing abundantly in Central Indi- 

 ana radiant with beauty adding to pasture 

 and roadside much of interest yet, for the most 

 part, blossoming unnoticed and unknown. 



XXIII. 



July 12, 'OS. This morn the heavens wept. 

 Their tears, in the form of rain, fell steadily 



6fymnetron teter Fab. 



