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blossoms and surrounded by four narrow scales. Co- 

 rolla, tubular. Calyx represented by a row of slender 

 rouehened bristles. Stamens, five, inserted on the 

 corolla. Anthers, united in a tube around the style. 

 Style, one, two-cleft at the apex. Seed-case, one- 

 celled, one-seeded, united to the calyx. July to Sept. 



Leaves, mostly two to three inches in length, simple, 

 opposite, toothed, or sometimes entire, pointed at the 

 apex, with the base usually heart-shaped, and often 

 unequally lobed. Leaf-stem, mostly one to two inches 

 long. 



Fruit, seed-like, dry, five-angled, lengthwise. An achene. 



Found, along the borders of streams and in damp thickets 

 from New England southward. Somewhat rare. 



A beautiful vine more or less herbaceous with long twin- 

 ing stems, smooth or nearly so throughout. 



Nearly every Sabbath the summer through, the simple 

 village church where we worshipped was made beautiful 

 with wild flowers. Especially was it so one Sabbath in 

 September. The Saturday before, Miss Mary and the 

 younger children had taken Toby (their small black pony, 

 set. 25 years or thereabout) and driven a mile down the 

 shore. . There in a swampy stretch at the side of the road 

 they found in abundance the beautiful climbing hemp- 

 weed. It screened to their tops and over their tops the 

 high bordering thickets. They gathered their prize in 

 masses ; and the next day its grace and its beauty 

 preached with the preacher to the worshippers in God's 

 house. 



