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weeds and related plants. The pink family follows, where 
many kinds of pinks, catchflies, and gypsophils may be 
found. In the first pool, formed by the widening of the 
brook, is the water-lily family; the large yellow pond 
lily or spatterdock, a native of eastern North America, 
may be seen here, as may also its relative, the red-disked 
pond lily, from northeastern North America; the sweet- 
scented water-lily, and its variety, the pink, or Cape Cod, 
water-lily, also find a place here. The tanks in the court 
of conservatory range I contain a great many additional 
kinds. The water-shield family, is represented in the pool 
by the water-shield, a native of North America. The 
horn-wort family likewise occupies a position in this pool. 
The aquatic members of the crowfoot family are grown 
here, the terrestrial forms being placed in four beds to 
the westward; one of these beds is given up entirely to 
the peonies (Paconia), of which there are a number of 
interesting and handsome forms, and others may be seen 
at the flower beds at conservatory range 1; and in the other 
beds may be found lark-spurs, columbines, buttercups, 
meadow-rues, anemones, liver-leaf, and many other rela- 
tives; aconite, or monk’s-hood, of great medicinal value, 
also belongs to this family. 
The barberry family, which is represented by a single 
bed on the ridge to the right of the crowfoot family, con- 
tains, among others, the blue-cohosh and the may-apple or 
mandrake (Podophyllum), natives of North America; 
the twin-leaf, a native of the northeastern United States; 
and of Japanese plants, the red epimedium. In the poppy 
family may be found the oriental poppy, a native of Asia 
Minor and Persia, and here may be seen also the cordate 
Macleaya, from Japan, and the Mexican poppy, a native of 
Mexico and found as a weed in many tropical and warm 
temperate regions. In the fumitory family are the bleed- 
ing-hearts (Bicuculla), represented by the wild bleeding- 
heart from the eastern United States. The mustard family, 
which comes next in the sequence, occupies two beds. To 
