STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 



The red-flowered Eupatorium, the old Thoroughwort of 

 the English herbalists, closely resembles our Canadian 

 plant; its habits, colors and qualities seem the same. When 

 viewing the native species it appears to carry my thoughts 

 back to childish haunts on the banks of the clear-flowing 

 Waveney and the flowery Suffolk meadows, 



" Where in childhood I strayed, 

 And plucked the wild flowers that hung over the way." 



A more graceful member of the Eupatorium family is the 

 WHITE SNAKEROOT Eupatorium ageratoides (L.), 



which is a pretty, elegant, perennial plant found in rich 

 woods. The white flowers are borne in compound corymbs. 



The leaves are from two to three inches long, toothed, 

 narrowly pointed, on long stalks, and of a bright green, 

 smooth and thin. Our plant is about three feet high, wide 

 and loosely spreading. The pretty white corymbs of flowers 

 make this an attraction among the forest herbage, for at the 

 season when it is in bloom most of the flowers have dis- 

 appeared from the woods. 



Not unfrequently we find in damp woods, but more espe- 

 cially on open marshy ground, the well-known herb. 



BONESET Eupatorium perfoliatum (L.). 



This species is easily distinguished from any other by its 

 veiny hoary grayish-green leaves, united at the base around 

 the stem, or perfoliate, the stem of the plant passing through 

 the centre of each pair. The large closely-set corymbs of 

 flowers are of a greenish-white and want the pretty tasselled 

 appearance of the White Snakeroot (E. ageratoides}. The 

 scent of this more homely plant is strongly resinous and 

 bitter, but it is held in great esteem for certain qualities of 



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