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the variety nivalis, or white (snowy) stamened syringa. 

 Across from this syringa is red maple. If you go 

 down the short arm of Walk here, you will pass, on 

 your right, Rose of Sharon, and, beyond it, European 

 white birch. Close by the little Summer House on 

 the border of the Lake are a couple of handsome Tur- 

 key oaks, with dark, heavily-ridged bark. Well out 

 on your right, as you come down this arm of Walk, 

 off from the Rose of Sharon, you will find a large 

 mass of the Hercules's Club or Devil's Walking Stick. 

 You will have no trouble in recognizing them, for they 

 are literally covered with spines and prickles. Surely 

 they are well named. They have long leaves which 

 are pinnately, and often twice or thrice pinnately com- 

 pound. The leaflets are ovate and pointed. In Au- 

 gust this shrub blooms in large conspicuous panicles 

 of greenish-white flowers which are succeeded, in 

 September, by small crimson, five-ribbed berries. The 

 mass here is thriving surely, and makes a decided dis- 

 play at its time of bloom. But you must see it in win- 

 ter if you want to get the glory of its spines. 



Come back now to the Concourse and continue its 

 circuit. Two Walks lead off from the northerly side 

 of the Concourse. Near the westerly, a fine cut-leaved 

 beach will be found, near the left-hand corner. In the 

 right-hand corner of this westerly branch you will find 

 Rhodotypos, with which you are now familiar. Next 

 to the Rhodotypos, east of it, by the border of the Walk, 

 is sweet syringa, and next to this is an interesting shrub 

 which you will do well to see in July. This is ouf 

 native buttonbush, and in July it is a curious sight, 



