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July Plants. 



profusion of this composite order, whose many species are 

 even now budding in preparation for the sea of flowers which 

 will deck the marsh-lands of August and September. Wild 

 bergamot, also, Monarda fistulosa, which like the thistles is of 

 importance to the apiarist, blooms in July. As before re- 



FiG. 156. 



Sour Wood. 



marked this- is one of the plants whose long flower tubes are 

 pierced by the Bombus, and Xylocopa bees. Then the honey- 

 bees help to gather the abundant nectar. This is a near relative 

 of the Southern horse-mint which, as will be seen, it closely re- 

 sembles. The golden honey plant, Actinomeris sqvarrosa, so 

 praised by Dr. Tinker, and rattle-snake root, Nahaius altissi- 



