84 PLANTS GROWING IN MOIST SOIL. 



most gorgeous in the sunshine,when the slanting rays of the sun 

 upon the petals appear like a luminous maze of changing colours. 

 About Cape Cod it is very common, and all along the New 

 England coast it grows in great profusion. 



BLAZING STAR. DEVIL'S BIT. DROOPING STAR- 

 WORT. 



ChamcElirium luteum. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Bunch-flower. White. Scentless. Mostly soutk and west. May-July. 



Flowers: small; staminate and pistillate; nodding; growing in a spike-like 

 raceme. Leaves: lanceolate; becoming linear; sessile. Basal leaves: spat- 

 ulate ; tapering into a long petiole. 



These wand-like racemes of inoffensive little flowers make 

 us wonder what mischief they could ever have indulged in to 

 have been connected with the devil. In fact, it is even incon- 

 siderate of that individual not to have chosen for him a bit of 

 more substance. 



5TOUT STENANTHIUM. (Plate XXXIX.} 

 Stendnthium robustum. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Bunch-flower, White, with green Scentless. Penn. southward July, August, 



centre. and westward. 



Flowers: clustered in a long, panicled, light raceme. Perianth: of six 

 lance-like, pointed divisions. Stamens: six, short. Pistil: one. Leaves: 

 linear ; grass-like ; nerved. Stem : erect ; high. 



A lovely, high, waving plant which bends and sways with 

 the cool breezes on the lonely prairie, or in the moist meadows. 

 Its stately air and soft colouring recall to mind a fair debutante 

 in spotless tulle with long streamers of green satin ribbon. 

 No less than she is the flower a belle of the prairies. 



FOUR=WINGPD SNOWDROP TREE. (Plate XL.) 



Mohrodendron Carolinum. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Star ax. White. Scentless. Mostly south and west. March, April. 



Flowers: growing in loose racemes along the branches. Calyx : short; 

 four-toothed. Corolla : bell-shaped ; drooping ; four, or five parted. Stamens : 



