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Butter-and-eggs, the Toad-flax, which was once a 

 garden child, but has run away from gardens to wan- 

 der in every field in the land. I haven't the slight- 

 est reason for this regard of Butter-and-eggs, and I 

 believe it is peculiar to myself, just as is Dr. Forbes 

 Watson's regard of the Marshmallow to him. I 



Bouncing Bet. 



have no uncanny or sad associations with it, and I 

 never heard anything "queer" about it. Thirty 

 years ago, in a locality I knew well in central Massa- 

 chusetts, Butter-and-eggs was far from common ; I 

 even remember the first time I saw it and was told 

 its quaint name ; now it grows there and every- 

 where ; it is a persistent weed. John Burroughs 



