weeds and related plants. The pink family follows, where 

 many kinds of pinks, catchflies, and gypsophils may be 

 found. In the first pool, formed by the widening of the 

 brook, is the water-lily family; the large yellow pond 

 lily or spatterdock, a native of eastern North America, 

 may be seen here, as may also its relative, the red-disked 

 pond lily, from northeastern North America; the sweet- 

 scented water-lily, and its variety, the pink, or Cape Cod, 

 water-lily, also find a place here. The tanks in the court 

 of conservatory range I contain a great many additional 

 kinds. The water-shield family, is represented in the pool 

 by the water-shield, a native of North America. The 

 horn-wort family likewise occupies a position in this pool. 

 The aquatic members of the crowfoot family are grown 

 here, the terrestrial forms being placed in four beds to 

 the westward; one of these beds is given up entirely to 

 the peonies (Paeonia), of which there are a number of 

 interesting and handsome forms, and others may be seen 

 at the flower beds at conservatory range I ; and in the other 

 beds may be found lark-spurs, columbines, buttercups, 

 meadow-rues, anemones, liver-leaf, and many other rela- 

 tives; aconite, or monk's-hood, of great medicinal value, 

 also belongs to this family. 



The barberry family, which is represented by a single 

 bed on the ridge to the right of the crowfoot family, con- 

 tains, among others, the blue-cohosh and the may-apple or 

 mandrake (Podophyllum), natives of North America; 

 the twin-leaf, a native of the northeastern United States; 

 and of Japanese plants, the red epimedium. In the poppy 

 family may be found the oriental poppy, a native of Asia 

 Minor and Persia, and here may be seen also the cordate 

 Macleaya, from Japan, and the Mexican poppy, a native of 

 Mexico and found as a weed in many tropical and warm 

 temperate regions. In the fumitory family are the bleed- 

 ing-hearts (Bicuculla), represented by the wild bleeding- 

 heart from the eastern United States. The mustard family, 

 which comes next in the sequence, occupies two beds. To 



