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and Pennsylvania. As its common name indicates, it is a vine, 
and among northern asclepiads odd on this account, though in 
the tropics many of them are found. The leav 
shaped, and the purple flowers are borne in umbels in their axils. 
The pod is covered with pointed — and much re- 
sembles that of the common milkweed, Asclepias Syriaca, of our 
roadsides and fencerows. Iti valuable more for its a than 
essential for culinary purposes, and also the true mint, which at 
times is so highly valued in certain much desired concoctions, 
has many claims to our attention. Physostegia Virginiana, the 
obedient plant, deriving its name from the behavior of the flowe 
which remain in the position, at least temporarily, in which ae 
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teristic referred to above. It grows from three to four feet tall 
and often carries its flowering period well into August. And 
the Bergamots, one of the constituents of many old-fashioned 
enforced, for the too close approach of the red and purple is 
anything but harmonious. 
In the figwort ay one of the showiest plants is Pentstemon 
barbatus of the West, with its long wand-like stems, usually four 
Leptandva Virginica, the culver’s root, so common in some sec- 
tions, with its tall stems clothed with whorled leaves, and narrow 
ense spike-like racemes of white flowers, forms a striking contrast. 
It is during the month of July that the Compositae first take a 
prominent place, foretelling the great wealth of asters and gol 
rods which are to flower later and clothe our hillsides and beautify 
our woods and fields, Conspicuous among the earlier ones are : 
Rudbechia laciniata, the tall cone-flower, reaching a height of five 
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