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This slender-stemmed shrub was the Swamp 

 Loosestrife, or Willow Herb, though Walking 

 Loosestrife would, I think, be rather a better 

 name for it, as it strides about our Connecticut 

 ponds and river banks with such rapidity that it 

 surely wears the seven-league boots of plant land! 

 A common plant? Yes, for our own home mill- 

 pond is hedged with it, though never had I found 

 a pond so completely possessed by it as this. But 

 how few there are who seem to know it 

 by name, or to remember ever 

 having seen it in 

 its haunts! Of 

 the many 

 guides to 

 flowers 



