120 PLANTS GROWING IN MOIST SOIL. 



their shoulders. In cultivation they resign this burden into the 

 hands of the gardener, and the whole cyme becomes composed 

 of neutral flowers. It is then known as the snowball tree, or 

 the guelder rose,* V. Alnifolio, Plate XCIX. 



ELDER. ELDERBERRY. 



Sambucus Canadensts. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Honeysuckle. White. Sweet, like honey. General. June, July. 



Flowers: minute ; growing in large flat cymes. Calyx: tubular, with small 

 teeth. Corolla: urn-shaped; five-lobed. Stamens: five. Pistil:, one, with 

 three stigmas. Fruit: a purple berry, juicy with the flavour of wine. Leaves : 

 pinnate ; of five to eleven, oblong, pointed, serrate leaflets. Stem : five to ten 

 feet high ; woody with white pith. 



Our grandmothers loved the elder, and as religiously as they 

 wove their linsey woolseys and worked their samplers they 

 made elderberry wine. Probably they found it, as we do, ex- 

 tremely good to the taste, and it is besides supposed to possess 

 a considerable amount of virtue. Along streams and in moist 

 soil by the roadsides the bloom and berries of the plant are 

 very noticeable. Every country child knows the elder, and 

 little boys are on most friendly terms with it. They push out 

 the white pith from the stems, light the ends, and initiate them- 

 selves into the mysteries of that more soothing weed which they 

 hope to know later. 



JEWEL-WEED. TOUCH=flE=NOT. (Plate L VIII ^ 

 Impdtiens biflora. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Jewel-weed. Orange yellow spotted with Scentless. Common south- Summer, 



reddish brown, 'ward. 



Flowers : clustered ; axillary ; nodding from thread-like flower-stalks. Calyx : 

 of four petal -like, unequal sepals ; the larger one extending backwards into a 

 sac which tapers into a little spur. Corolla : of two petals that are two-lobed. 

 Stamens: five ; cohering about the ovary. Pistil : one. Leaves : alternate ; on 

 petioles ; ovate ; smooth and serrated. Stems : much branched ; smooth ; tender. 



The jewel-weed and a bright running stream have come to be 

 about as closely associated in the mind as the dear old white 

 horse and the red-haired girl. Now there is no doubt whatever 



