EARLY AUGUST 



purple blossoms of the monkey-flower. The path 

 of the slow stream is defined by the bright arrow- Inland 

 shaped leaves and spotless gold-centred flowers swamps 

 of the arrow-head. About the upper part of their 

 stems are clustered the male blossoms, their three 

 snowy petals surrounding the yellow stamens, the 

 rather ugly female flowers with their dull green 

 centres occupying a less conspicuous position be- 

 low. This is only in some cases, however; at 

 times the staminate and pistillate blossoms are 

 found on separate plants. 



The edges of the pond are blue with the long, 

 close spikes of the pickerel-weed. Over the thick- 

 ets on its shore the clematis has flung a veil of The pond 

 feathery white. A tangle of golden threads with 

 little bunched white flowers shows that the dodder 

 is at its old game of living on its more self-reliant 

 neighbors. From erect, finger-like clusters comes 

 the sweet, spicy breath of the Clethra. 



Where the white dust of the road powders the 

 wayside plants, rise the coarse stalks of the even- The 

 ing primrose. These are hung with faded-look- roa ~ st e 

 ing flowers whose unsuspectedly fragrant pet- 

 als gleamed through the moonlit darkness of last 

 night. Among them we find a fragile, canary- 

 yellow blossom which has been unable to close 

 because the pink night-moth, which is the plant's 

 regular visitor, is so overcome with sleep, or so 



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