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in late summer and fall it produces small plants at the 
base of the leaf-blades. 
To the herbaceous members of the rose family are al- 
lotted five beds, located to the left of the saxifrage family. 
Many species of cinquefoils and agrimonies may be found 
here; of the strawberry (Fragaria) there are several species 
represented; the lady’s-mantle, from north temperate 
regions, the various species of avens, the goat’s-beard, the 
burnets and many others, are of decorative value or of in- 
terest for other reasons. ‘The roses, blackberries and rasp- 
berries, also members of this family, are shrubs, and may 
be found at the fruticetum. The mimosa family has 
relatively few representatives in temperate regions, most 
of its numerous members being confined to warm temperate 
regions and to the tropics; many of these may be found in 
house 2 at conservatory range I, and others, including 
the attractive acacias from ren at the Central 
Display House, range 2. To the senna family belong 
the sennas or cassias, a showy representative being the 
American senna, a native of North America; this family 
being also ice of warm temperate and tropical dis- 
tribution, many other species may be found at conserva- 
tory range I, near the mimosa family. To the right 
of the mimosa family may be found the bed devoted to the 
pea family; to this some of our most valued economic 
plants belong, such as the pea, the bean and the clover, 
which may be found at the economic garden; to the pea 
family belong also the baptisias, the bush-clovers, the 
vetches, the tick-trefoils and many other familiar plants. 
Next in the order of sequence is the geranium family, to 
which belong the geraniums or crane’s-bills; the plants so 
often cultivated in the house under the name of geraniums, 
but which are not hardy out of doors in our climate, are 
really not what they are called, but are truly pelargoniums, 
a closely-related group of pian Belonging. to the same 
family; our common wild geranium or crane’s bill may be 
found, among other plants here. A little farther on, near 
