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which has attracted all the carrion-liking flies in 

 the neighborhood, drives us hurriedly from its 

 vicinity. 



Over the rocks and about the trunks and close 

 branches of slim cedars twine the stout stems and 

 glossy leaves of the poison-ivy. If we are wise, we 

 tarry here no longer than by the carrion-vine, for 

 the small white flowers, now fully open, are said 

 to give forth peculiarly poisonous emanations. 



Flat rosettes of purple-veined leaves and tall 

 clusters of dandelion-like flower-heads abound by 

 the dusty highway. The striped leaves suggested 

 the markings of the rattlesnake to some imagina- 

 tive mind, and so the plant has been dubbed 

 " rattlesnake weed," and the superstitious have 

 used it as a cure for the bites of the rattlesnake. 

 Narrow leaves and pretty, spotted flowers on hair- 

 like stalks grow in many circles about the slender 

 stems of the yellow loosestrife. 



The blackberry vines wreathe everything with- 

 in reach with their graceful branches and large, 

 delicate flowers. The slender, light-blue clusters 

 of the larger skull-cap are beginning to be notice- 

 able. Through the grasses glistens the wet scarlet 

 of wild-strawberries. In the thicket are shrubs, 

 whose green buds are still too firmly closed for us 

 to guess their names, unless we chance to recog- 

 nize their leaves. There is always something to 



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