68 THROUGH GLADE AND MEAD. 
One of the smallest of these grows on the edge of gravel 
walks and opens its pink-red corolla during the middle 
of the day when the sun is shining. In the morning 
and in the late afternoon we might pass it unnoticed, 
but at midday when its many blossoms are open, small 
though they are, we should be attracted to it. I learned 
to know it under the name Spergularia rubra, Presl. but 
it is known also as Buda rubra, Dumort., and 7issa ru- 
bra, Britton. Whichever name may be finally accepted, 
the little plant will be not a jot the less interesting, nor 
bloom a whit the less profusely. 
The ox-eye daisy (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum, 
L.) and the cone-flower (Rudbeckia hirta, L.) are two 
of the June flowers conspicuous by their great numbers. 
Though they may be regarded as pestiferous weeds 
when encroaching upon cultivated lands, there is plenty 
of room for them in the waste lands everywhere; and 
the golden-yellow disks with the crown of silver-white 
rays of the former, and the dark brown disks with the 
crown of golden-yellow rays of the latter will not fail of 
admirers. Both of them are immigrants. The ox-eye 
daisy has followed the course of empire and comes to 
us from the old world; the cone-flower has reversed 
this course and comes to us from the prairies of the 
Mississippi Valley. Both of them have come to stay. 
They thrive in this land, and, if they could speak, would, 
