THE MID-JULY FLOWERS. 213 
Lycopus sessilifolius, Gray Water Horehound. 
Circea Lutetiana, L. Enchanter’s Nightshade. 
400 Aralia quinquefolia, Decsne. & Planch. Ginseng. 
At the head of the list is one of our common 
shrubs, the smooth sumach. When massed together in 
good-sized clumps, it plays no insignificant part in the 
beauty of wayside and upland pasture. Its compound 
leaves, often a foot or more long, with from thirteen to 
nineteen leaflets, on a large smooth stalk, serve to iden- 
tify it easily from the other sumachs. In the low lands, 
where it can find the moisture that it needs, the hard- 
hack is abundant. The erect position of its stem, 
crowned by a tapering spire of, purple flowers, is said 
to have gained for it from the early colonists the name 
of ‘‘steeple-bush.” Though it begins to flower at the 
top of its compound panicle, where the flowers are 
faded before those on the lower branches begin to ex- 
pand, this little shrub possesses ‘considerable beauty. 
The Ampelopsis is often planted about houses on account 
of the beauty of its foliage. It need not be mistaken 
for the poison ivy, if we remember the ivy’s three leaf- 
lets and the five of the Ampelopsis. The clematis, now 
in bloom, will be more conspicuous by and by when in 
feathery fruit. 
In the grass which covered an old and now disused 
wood-road in Auburn I once found the little Wzcrostylzs, 
