LION'S FOOT, THE JEWEL WEEDS, AND OTHER 



AUTUMN PLANTS 



(WITH A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF CENTIPEDES AND WHIP-TAILED SCORPIONS) 



RY MAJOR R. W. SHUFELDT, C. M. Z. S., ETC. 

 MEDICAL CORPS, U. S. ARMY, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



NATURE is quite oblivious to the terrible and stu- 

 pendous tragedies now being enacted in many parts 

 of the world ; nature always has preserved this 

 attitude the machinations of man to the contrary. Men 

 may saturate the soil with the life-blood of the com- 

 batants' millions, with the tears of armies of women and 

 children, and devastate civilization's structures of the cen- 

 turies yet, only where man does his slaughtering, his 

 burning, his incessant shell and mine exploding, and such 

 other wholesale destruction as follows in the wake of his 

 warring millions, does nature stand, for the time, aghast 

 at his savagery, succumbs to the grinding of his merciless 



heel, or shrivels under the searing engendered by the 

 ceaseless fire of his countless weapons of destruction, of 

 every conceivable description. 



In ages to come, the shell-riven fields of France, ren- 

 dered hideous by the forces and power of man's modern 

 means of destruction, will again grow a soft, green turf ; 

 will once more admit of the unhindered blossoming of 

 flowers, and permit the birds to return to the trees and 

 hedgerows, to build their nests and rear their young, as 

 they did in the happy days of peace. 



Well may that country be congratulated which has 

 escaped such devastation ; whose forests and fields have 



PIERCE'S MILL (ROCK CREEK PARK), WASHINGTON'S SUBURBS. A SUNSET SCENE LATE IN SUMMER 

 r't I Far up this stream, in Maryland, many of the flower* that have illustrated these articles in American Forestry have been gathered. This 



show 



Oaks and Beech in September leaf. 



