134 PLANTS GROWING IN MOIST SOIL. 



quently being lobed ; pale underneath. Stem : tall ; from five to ten feet 

 high ; leafy. 



A common plant in moist soil along the roadsides and thick- 

 ets. Its great height and large leaves make it conspicuous, 

 especially m the autumn. From it the humming birds gather 

 down to make their nests. 



JOE=PYE=WEED. TRUMPET=WEED. {P/afe LXVI/I.) 



Eitpatbriian p iirp iireum . 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Composite. Crimson purple. Scentless. General. Late summer. 



Flowers: small; growing in dense, compound corymbs at the end of the 

 stem and branches. Corolla : tubular ; with long protruding styles of a light 

 lavender colour which give the flower-head its soft, fluffy appearance. Leaves: 

 whorled in groups of four to six, lanceolate, rough ; toothed and deeply 

 veined, sometimes with purple. Stem : occasionally twelve feet high ; rough ; 

 purple. 



" Old Joe-Pye's in the pasture again," the farmer cries ; and 

 his wife nods sympathetically without, perhaps, turning her 

 head to look across the lowlands at the soft tint lent to the 

 landscape by this handsome weed. It received its quaint name 

 from a New England Indian doctor who is said to have cured 

 typhus fever by its use. 



CUT=LEAVED GOLDEN ROD. 



Sol id ago argiita. 



Flower-heads : growing on stalks in a dense pyramidal raceme. Rays : six 

 to seven, large, spreading. Leaves : lanceolate ; thin ; serrated. Stem : 

 angled ; smooth. 



Many books might be Vv-ritten about the golden rods and the 

 story then be only partly told. We know them as a brilliant 

 family which gradually appear among us, sending up first green 

 stems from their perennial roots, then opening sparingly a few 

 buds ; and before we can realise that they have returned to us, 

 they have thrown out a mass of bloom that illuminates almost 

 every field and waste corner. Their message to us is hardly as 



