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July Plants. 



Figwort, Scrophnlaria nodosa fFig. 152), often called Rattle- 

 Weed , as the seeds will rattle in the pod, and Carpenter's Square, 

 as it lias a square stalk, is an insignificant looking weed, with 



Figwort, 



inconspicuous flowers, that afTord abundant nectar from the 

 middle of July till frost. I have received almost as many for 

 id'-ntification as I have of the asters and golden-rods. Prof 

 Bcal remarked to me a year or two since, that it hardly seemed 



