88 PLANTS GROWING IN MOIST SOIL. 



out fragrance. It is when we find so lovely a flower scentless 

 that we realise how great a charm that of perfume is, and how 

 much we are appealed to through fragrance. In fact, in 

 delight of sweetness of smell we are veritable bees and butter^ 

 flies. 



Many flowers use the means of casting out fragrance to 

 inform the insects of their whereabouts; and it has been 

 observed, as in the case of the meadow-sweet, that those that 

 are sufficiently showy to attract the bee's eye seldom appeal 

 as well to his sense of smell. 



STEEPLE=BU5H. HARDHACK. 



Spz'rka tomentosa. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Rose. Peach-blow pink. Scentless. New England southward. Summer. 



Flowers : small; thickly clustered in a pyramidal spike. Calyx: of five se- 

 pals. Corolla: of five, rosaceous petals. Stamens : numerous. Pistils : five to 

 eight. Leaves: alternate; small; ovate; tootUed and downy underneath. 

 Stem : erect ; slender ; downy. 



We are impressed by the steeple-bush very much as we are 

 by the dainty beauty of the meadow-sweet. Its fleecy spikes 

 lighten the low grounds, and we would miss them sorely from 

 the bunch of late summer flowers that we gather shortly before 

 the great family of composites invades the fields. According 

 to the custom of perennial herbs, these plants die down to the 

 ground every year at the approach of frost. The live stem 

 with its buds hovers near the root and sends up the young 

 shoots of the next year. 



SMALLER FORGET=ME-NOT. 



Myosbtis Idxa, 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Borage. Pale blue. Scentless, J'rom the north to Virginia May-July. 



and Tennessee. 



Flowers : small ; growing in a raceme. Calyx : five-lobed ; hairy. Corolla : 

 salver-shaped; five-cleft. Stamens: five; included. Pistil: one; slender. 

 Leaves : alternate ; oblong ; sessile ; hairy. Stem : leafy ; slender- 

 Perhaps the prettiest legend about the little forget-me-not is 

 that of the Persians. 



