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Sparganium eurycarpum, Engelm. _Bur-reed. 
Gnaphalium uliginosum, L. Low Cudweed. 
Asplenium ebeneum, Ait. Spleenwort. 
Asplenium Trichomanes, L. e 
Asplenium thelypteroides, Michx. « 
Onoclea sensibilis, L. Sensitive Fern. 
Polypodium vulgare, L. Polypody. 
Lycopodium clavatum, L. Common Club- 
Moss. 
500 Lycopodium obscurum, L., var. 
dendroideum, Michx. Ground-Pine. 
The trees have now put forth their blossoms; only 
one or two shrubs remain to grace the end of the year, 
but among them is the Clethra. The margin of the 
little pool, where in the rare days of early June the pink 
azalea filled the air with its fragrance, and where, a little 
later, the white racemes of the Leucothoe smiled amid 
the bright spring verdure, is now lighted up by the far- 
seen snowy Clethra, while the sweet southwest wind 
playing over the water wafts its faint odor far. Fortu- 
nate little Pool, basking through the summer months in 
the smiles of three so fair beauties! It is well for thee 
that thou hast no golden apple to bestow upon the 
fairest, so to win the hatred of the other two and see 
them turn their faces away from thy banks. Attractive 
as the C/ethra is in itself, it is still more attractive from 
the fact of its being almost alone among the shrubs in 
