THE LATE SUMMER FLOWERS. 247 
I first found the swamp loosestrife on the margin 
of a floating isle, where its long recurved stems, covered 
with axillary, rose-purple flowers, could not fail to at- 
tract the attention. I have found it since in other 
places but similar in situation. The shore of the main- 
land near by is thickly lined with Cyperus dentatus, one 
of the most showy of our galingales. 
The asters and the golden-rods are everywhere. 
The late summer would scarcely seem to be itself with- 
out them. White, purple and yellow, they fill the world 
with a beauty unbought but not unprized. Along the 
river-banks Szcyos is found abundant. The climbers 
have one advantage over other herbaceous plants in 
that they can cover so much space that they are not 
overlooked, and they can get up into the light. Szcyos 
is almost our only uncultivated species of the gourd 
family, represented in cultivation by the pumpkin, 
squash, cucumber, watermelon, etc. 
This dried specimen of Leersza in my herbarium 
now calls to mind a late August day several years ago 
when its odd-looking panicles first caught my eye as I 
strolled along familiar paths and recognized a grass not 
seen before. Late summer has its favorite and peculiar 
grasses, as well as early spring. Most of them stand up 
tall and graceful with large panicles of purple, and 
yellow, and greenish flowers. Czuna arundinacea and 
Chrysopogon nutans are two of the most characteristic 
