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it may be recognized at once by its small honey- 

 yellow flowers rather than by its leaves, which are 

 not different from a great 

 many others with whose 

 company they are pretty 

 sure to be well mixed. 

 There is only a slight re- 

 semblance to the culti- 

 vated honeysuckle in this 

 wild variety; and beside 

 the magnificent pink blos- 

 soms of the D. Ja/ponica, 

 that beautiful shrub which 

 comes to us from Japan, 

 our native variety dwin- 

 dles into utter insignifi- 

 cance. It blooms in ear- 

 ly summer. 



On the top 



of Mount 



"Washington, 



seeking shel- 

 ter in the crevices of the 

 storm-beaten rocks, one 

 may find in early sum- 

 mer plenty of the dainty little Alpine plant called 

 mountain sandwort ; it is sometimes called mountain 



Mountain 

 Sandwort. 



Arenaria 

 Grcunlan&ica. 



Bush-Honejsuckle. 



