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FAMILIAR FEATURES OP THE ROADSIDE. 



sumach. This spiraea grows from two to five, or 

 sometimes eight, feet high; the bruised fohage has 

 the odor of sweet birch. 



Two members of the Kose subfamily, which are 

 very common indeed in the grassy levels between the 

 shrubbery, are the wild cinquefoil {Potentilla Cana- 

 densis), a httle yellow buttercup-shaped flower, with 



Graylock from Chesteirdeld, Mass. 



leaves like those of the strawberry (except that there 

 are five instead of three leaflets), and the strawberry 

 itself (Fragaria Yirginiana) ; both are very plentiful 

 on the green -bordered roads about Chesterfield, Mass. 

 Next we come to the bramble tribe of the Rose 

 subfamily, one of the most beautiful members of 

 which is the purple - flowering raspberry {Rubus 

 odoratus). It has a handsome three-lobed leaf, not 

 unlike that of the maple, and a crimson-pink bios- 



