STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 
The red-flowered Eupatorium, the old Thoroughwort of 
the English herbalists, closely resembles our Canadian 
plant; its habits, colors and qualities seem the same. When 
viewing the native species it appears to carry my thoughts 
back to childish haunts on the banks of the clear-flowing 
Waveney and the flowery Suffolk meadows, 
‘* Where in childhood I strayed, 
And plucked the wild flowers that hung over the way.” 
A more graceful member of the Eupatorium family is the 
WHite SNAKEROOT—Eupatorium ageratoides (L.), 
which is a pretty, elegant, perennial plant found in rich 
woods. The white flowers are borne in compound corymbs. 
The leaves are from two to three inches long, toothed, 
narrowly pointed, on long stalks, and of a bright green, 
smooth and thin. Our plant is about three feet high, wide 
and loosely spreading. The pretty white corymbs of flowers 
make this an attraction among the forest herbage, for at the 
season when it is in bloom most of the flowers have dis- 
appeared from the woods. 
Not unfrequently we find in damp woods, but more espe- 
cially on open marshy ground, the well-known herb. 
BoneseT—LHupatorium perfoliatum (1.). 
This species is easily distinguished from any other by its 
veiny hoary grayish-green leaves, united at the base around 
the stem, or perfoliate, the stem of the plant passing through 
the centre of each pair. The large closely-set corymbs of 
flowers are of a greenish-white and want the pretty tasselled 
appearance of the White Snakeroot (H. ageratoides). The 
scent of this more homely plant is strongly resinous and 
bitter, but it is held in great esteem for certain qualities of 
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