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of late flowering, the towsled yellow blossoms surrounding the 

 ripe seed-pods, which like miniature howitzers discharge their 

 contents to an incredible distance ; the button-bush, swamp and 

 highland huckleberry, blueberry, high and low blackberry, red 

 and black raspberry, thimble-berry, hardhack, iron-weed, high- 

 land and swamp laurel, sheep laurel or lamb-kill, cornel, poison 

 sumach or dogwood, bayberry, sweet fern, swamp and sweet 

 brier rose, skunk currant ; creeping, bush and climbing poison 

 ivy, thorn-bush, etc.. The number of shrubs omitted probably 

 largely exceeds the number above enumerated. 



The grasses, native and introduced, now number more than 

 thirty varieties. 



We append a partial list of additional flowering and non-flow- 

 ering plants : Wild grape, clematis, woodbine, cranberry, May- 

 flower, club and tree-club moss, columbine, true and false Solo- 

 mon's seal, checkerberry, partridge berry, sarsaparilla, cardinal 

 flower, arrowhead, pipsissewa, the blue closed, five-fingered and 

 fringed gentian, Jack-in-the-pulpit, Indian tobacco, bunch berry, 

 skunk cabbage, fire-weed, pyrola, gold-thread, garget, pitcher- 

 plant, mullein or the American velvet plant, purple and yellow 

 lady's slipper, several sorts of milk-weed, St. John's wort, white 

 and pink yarrow, pearl everlasting, cinquefoil, yellow, and sour 

 or narrow leaved dock, nettle, sweet flag, cat-tail, white water- 

 lily, cow-lily, pickerel weed, flower de luce, blue flag, blue-eyed 

 and star-grass ; yellow, and red or tiger lilies, many varieties of 

 violets, the rushes, the thistles, purslane, robin-run-round, pig- 

 weed, called in the south lamb's quarter and used for greens; 

 burdock, screw-stem, self-heal, wild morning glory, smartweed, 

 purple orchis, spring and fall dandelion, wild sunflower, daisy or 

 white weed, black-eyed-Susan or ox-eye daisy, horsetail, many 

 species of goldenrod, several members of the aster group, spear- 

 mint, peppermint and other square-stems, pennyroyal, mother- 

 wort, thoroughwort, elecampane, wild buckwheat, artichoke, 

 garden wormwood, formerly supposed to be necessary to digest 



