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winged seed-vessels arrest one's notice. At this time the vine is 

 very beautiful and striking, and one wonders that it could have 

 escaped detection in the earlier year. 



Dalibarda repens. Rose Family. 



Scape. Low. Leaves. Heart-shaped, wavy-toothed. Flowers. White, 

 one or two borne on each scape. Calyx. Deeply five or six-parted, three 

 of the divisions larger and toothed. Corolla. Of five petals. Stamens. 

 Many. Pistils. Five to ten. 



The foliage of this pretty little plant suggests the violet ; 

 while its white blossom* betrays its kinship with the wild straw- 

 berry. It may be found from June till August in woody places, 

 being one of those flowers which we seek deliberately, whose 

 charm is never decreased by its being thrust upon us inoppor- 

 tunely. Who can tell how much the attractiveness of the wild 

 carrot, the dandelion, or butter-and-eggs would be enhanced 

 were they so discreet as to withdraw from the common haunts of 

 men into the shady exclusiveness which causes us to prize many 

 far less beautiful flowers ? 



STARRY CAMPION. 



Silene stellata. Pink Family. 



Stem. Swollen at the joints, about three feet high. Leaves. Whorled 

 in fours, oval, taper-pointed. Flowers. White, in a large pyramidal cluster. 

 Calyx. Inflated, five-toothed. Corolla. Of five deeply fringed petals. 

 Stamens. Ten. Pistil. One, with three styles. 



In late July many of our wooded banks are decorated with 

 the tall stems, whorled leaves, and prettily fringed flowers of the 

 starry campion. 



Closely allied to it is the bladder campion of the fields, S. 

 Cucubalus, a much smaller plant, with opposite leaves, loosely 

 clustered white flowers, a greatly inflated calyx, and two-cleft 

 petals. This is an emigrant from Europe, which was first natu- 

 ralized near Boston, and has now become wild in different parts 

 of the country, quite overrunning some of the farm-lands which 

 border the Hudson River. 



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