THE NANAKUSA. 



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moon festival, the hagi and the susuki (=obana) are, according to 

 Mr. Conder, among 1 ''flowers prohibited for auspicious occasions." 

 Of the varieties of lespedeza the red ranks first. 



AUTUMN GRASSES. 



The hagi (bush-clover) is said to have attached to it several 

 "fables, chief amongst them being that in which it is represented as 

 a maid beloved by a stag."*It also figures, somewhat more per- 



