ACCORDING TO SEASON 



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 

 Poison-ivy 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 

 Rattle- the dusty highway. The striped leaves suggested 

 and loose- the markings of the rattlesnake to some imagina- 

 strife t j ve m i n d ) anc i 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, 

 The road- 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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