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pod, winch is slenderer than that of common milk- 

 weed, and more interesting ; it bursts later, and hol(J8 

 on its ragged-looking contents bet- 

 ter, thus giving the dried and 

 shriveled plant a weird appearance, 

 suggestive of a wild, gray-haired 

 witch. 



HarebeU. The dainty harebell. 



Campanula wllicll looks SO frail 



•^ that it seems as 

 -though a cold gust of wind might 

 wither its transparent blue and 

 break its, delicate stem, is one of 

 thg hardiest of all our smaller wild 

 flowers. This flower is, in fact, no 

 othep,than the rugged bluebell of Scotland. It will 

 be found blooming in the meadows in early JuTie, 

 and northward it can be gathered on the mountain 

 tops as late as September. I have found perfect 

 specimens on the slopes of Mount "Washington and 

 on the edges of the rocky clifl^s which flank the 

 southern side of Mount Willard, in the Crawford 

 Notch, as late as the 20th of September. The pretty 

 little blue, pointed bells can be often seen hanging over 

 a precipice and swinging at every passing breeze with a 

 fearlessness which one would expect in a larger flower 

 with a bolder aspect. But goats and bluebells are 



Seed pod ot the Butter- 

 fly Weed. 



