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witHout tke inagnifier give some amount of liYely 

 colour to our otherwise sombre handful, especially 

 if we gather some of the larger flowered bistort* 

 species. For our next plant you probably need not 



T'la. SJ.— Petty SpUTge. The MoSsoma arranged in umbels. 



go further than the first neglected garden where 

 " weeds do grow," for there, or on some neglected 

 bank outside the garden, the spurge or euphorbia 

 family are^ most apt to take up their quarters. 



* The knot-grass, bistort, and buckwheat, all belong to the same 

 hatimc3,lgeau». Polygonum. ' -I 



