242 FAMILIAR FLOWERS OF FIELD AKD GARDEN. 



Clarendon hills south of Boston, but never found 

 many well developed specimens in the Pemigewasset 

 Valley or among the White Hills. In the south- 

 westerly States, from Maryland to Kansas and Texas, 

 there is another flower which closely resembles this 

 fall dandelion, called the Cynthia dandelion ; * this 

 variety may be easily distinguished from the other, 

 as it has naked flower stems (without the tiny bracts), 

 and the lower leaves are sharp-toothed ; there are also 

 long, very narrow, straight leaves, peculiar to this 

 Cynthia dandelion, which will not be found in either 

 of the other varieties. But the Cynthia stops bloom- 

 ing just about the time the fall dandelion begins ; so 

 there is sTiiall chance of one flower being mistaken 

 for the other. 



Nightshade. About the time when the fall dande- 

 Soianmn lion is blooming and the latest fringed 



u camara. gentian flowers close their eyes to the 

 slanting sun of October we may see the thickets which 

 flank the roads just outside of Boston covered with 

 beautiful elliptical red berries, which hang in graceful 

 clusters from the thin protruding branches. These 

 berries possess exactly the same translucent quality of 

 color as the red cherry does — a pure red without a 



* Its botanical name is both Cynthia dandelion and Krigia 

 dandelion ; the latter is given the preference in Gray's Manual, 

 revised edition. 



