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arist, also blooms in July. As before remarked, this is one of 

 the plants whose long flower-tubes are pierced by the Xylocopa 

 bees. Then the honey-bees help to gather the abundant nec- 

 tar. This is a near relative of the horsemint which, as will be 



Fig. 244. 



Sour- 



Oriijlnal. 



seen, it closely resembles. The golden honey-plant (Actino- 

 raeris squarrosa), so praised by Dr. Tinker, and rattlesnake 

 root (Nabalus altissimus), which swarms with bees all the day 

 long, are also composite plants. 



The little shrub of our marshes, appropriately named but- 

 ton-bush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), (Fig. 2+3), also shares 



