White and Greenish 



light brown hunter's butterfly {Pyrameis huntera) are among 

 the visitors seen flitting about this exquisite little tree in early 

 May, when it is fairly white with bloom. 



The Red-fruited Thorn (C. mollis), more hairy on its twigs, 

 petioles, calices, and fruit than the preceding, but so like it in 

 most respects it was formerly accounted a mere variety, is an 

 earlier and even more prolific bloomer, the generous, large clusters 

 of malodorous flowers coming with the leaves in April, and last- 

 ing until the common hawthorn starts into lively competition 

 with it for insect trade. 



Numerous long, slender thorns, often measuring a finger- 

 length, distinguish the Cockspur or Newcastle Thorn (C Crus- 

 Galli), whose abundant small flowers and shining, leathery 

 leaves, dull underneath, are conspicuous in thickets from Quebec 

 to the Gulf. Immense numbers of little bees, among many other 

 visitors, may be noted on a fine day in May and early June about 

 this showy shrub or tree. Because it blooms later than its rival 

 sisters, it has the insect wooers then abroad all to itself. 



While most of our beautiful native hawthorns have been 

 introduced to European gardens, it is the White Thorn or May 

 (C. Oxyacantha) of Europe and Asia which is most commonly 

 cultivated here. Truly a shrub, like a prophet, is not without 

 honor save in its own country. 



White Sweet Clover; Bokhara or Tree Clover; 

 White Meiilot; Honey Lotus 



(Melilotus alba) Pea family 



FUnvers — Small, white, fragrant, papilionaceous, the standard petal 

 a trifle longer than the wings ; borne in slender racemes. 

 Stem: 3 to lo ft. tall, branching. Leaves: Rather distant, 

 petioled, compounded of 3 oblong, saw-edged leaflets ; fra- 

 grant, especially when dry. 



Preferred Habitat — Waste lands, roadsides. 



Flowering Season — June — November. 



Distribution — United States, Europe, Asia. 



Happy must the honey-bees have been to find that the sweet 

 clover, one of their dearest delights in the Old World, had preceded 

 them in immigrating to the New. Immense numbers of insects — 

 bees in great variety, wasps, flies, moths, and beetles — visit the 

 little blossoms that provide entertainment so generous and acces- 

 sible ; but honey-bees are ever especially abundant. Slight weight 

 depresses the keel, releasing the stigma and anthers ; therefore, 

 so soon as a bee alights and opens the flower, he is hit below the 

 belt by the projecting stigma. Pollen carried by him there from 



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