Along the Lakeside—Third Excursion 
throw their limbs about in a most awkward, sprawling 
fashion, and know nothing of grace and symmetry. 
Yet occasionally a less uncouth specimen towers upward 
in symmetrical dignity, much like the mountain-mag- 
nolia. Such a tree in full bloom is a revelation. Its 
bark is so distinctive as readily to identify the species, 
but it is not an interesting feature of the tree. In fall 
it hangs full of pods a foot long or more that remain 
all winter and give the plant the name of Indian bean. 
It is a thrifty species, easily cultivated both from slips 
and from seed, and the Park contains many specimens, 
especially the ‘‘ Ramble’’ and southward. 
ANGELICA - TREE. —A real arboreal curiosity, that 
looks, more than anything else in the Park, as if made 
when nature was in one of her tantrums—if she ever gets 
into that undignified state—is a plant euphemistically 
called angelica-tree; but one finds its nature much 
better expressed in its two other more fitting names, 
Hercules’ Club and Devil’s Walking-stick, which state 
frankly and fairly the character of this savage little beast 
of vegetation. 
Imagine a grim-looking stump ten to fifteen feet high 
and tapering gradually to the apex, scarcely branching 
except toward the top, beset throughout with long sharp 
spines, and from the summit throwing off in close suc- 
cession a series of immense doubly or trebly compound 
leaves sometimes over three feet long and two or more in 
breadth, and one will understand the remarkable appear- 
ance of this strange growth. Stripped of its foliage, 
Hercules could not have asked for a better club, and for 
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