JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, AND SEPTEMBER. 1G7 



deptlis it is misty-looking. Tlie color of the anthers 

 and the stamens, five in number, are surprisingly 



pretty when viewed 

 throusrh a mag- 

 nifying glass ; 

 the stems and 

 leaves are wiry 

 and tough ; bnt 

 the tenderer 

 round leaf, from 

 wliich the plant gets its botan- 

 ical name, springs directly from 

 the root and dies early. 



Self-heal. The very famil- 



Brvnella vulgaris. joj. j-rig+y - ffreen- 



heads of this small blue (more 

 correctly blue-purple) flower 

 called self-heal are 

 ever present be- 

 side the road and 

 on the edge of 

 the pasture. All summer long 

 the tireless little flower blossoms 

 almost anywhere we may hap- 

 pen to look. It is provoking to see a common thing 

 so constantly and yet not to know its name ; and I 

 venture to say there are but few of us who recognize 



Bi*unel]a. 



