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considered ornamental, and is striking from the stag-horn ap- 

 pearance its blunt branches present. There is a beautiful 

 specimen at Llanstwyth, Hamilton. 



Vinea Rosea. (Poor Man's Rose; Red Periwinkle.) Al- 

 though a garden plant may here and there be found outside of 

 cultivation, there are white and red varieties of it. It grows 

 about nine inches high, the flowers being in center of leaves 

 grouped around them and being mathematically star-shaped. 

 Leaves ovate, pointed, two to three inches across and four 

 inches long, dead green, cool-looking. Biennial. May to 

 September. Blossom not unlike a phlox. 



Thevetic Merufolia. Juss, or Cerbera Thevetia (yellow 

 Trumpet-flower.) Closely resembles the oleander except that 

 its bright, glossy leaves are much narrower, drooping and 

 alternate. Its yellow blossoms are followed by a two-seeded 

 drupe or fruition a stalk two inches long, spiny, not unlike 

 that of the horse chestnut, but very poisonous. Summer 

 months. I have found it in several localities, although Reade 

 confines it to cultivation. 



Natural Order, Asclepiadeae. 



Asclepias Curassavica. Linn. (Butterfly-weed; wild ipeca- 

 cuanah). A plant two to four feet high, half shrubby: stems 

 cylindrical, downy. Leaves four inches long, one inch wide, 

 lanceolate, opposite, entire. Flowers showy, scarlet, and 

 orange, followed by pods the seeds of which are embedded in 

 glossy silky hairsor fibres. Not common. In America it is 

 known as silkweed. Perennial. July to November. 



Natural Order, Gentianeae. 



Erythraea Centaurium. Pers. (Centaury; wild rice.) A 

 small, inconpicuous plant, seldom more than six inches high, 

 oftenest less. Stem branched, leaves in pairs, entire, oblong, 

 half-inch long and quarter of an inch wide. Flowers rose- 

 colour, long, slender with a white appearance of corolla tube, 

 like a grain of rice. Common on hills and dry waysides. 

 Annual. February to July. 



