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in late summer and fall it produces small plants at the 

 base of the leaf-blades. 



To the herbaceous members of the rose family are al- 

 lotted five beds, located to the left of the saxifrage family. 

 Many species of cinquefoils and agrimonies may be found 

 here; of the strawberry (Fragaria) there are several species 

 represented; the lady's-mantle, from north temperate 

 regions, the various species of avens, the goat's-beard, the 

 burnets and many others, are of decorative value or of in- 

 terest for other reasons. The roses, blackberries and rasp- 

 berries, also members of this family, are shrubs, and may 

 be found at the fruticetum. The mimosa family has 

 relatively few representatives in temperate regions, most 

 of its numerous members being confined to warm temperate 

 regions and to the tropics; many of these may be found in 

 house 2 at conservatory range I, and others, including 

 the attractive acacias from Australia, at the Central 

 Display House, range 2. To the senna family belong 

 the sennas or cassias, a showy representative being the 

 American senna, a native of North America; this family 

 being also largely of warm temperate and tropical dis- 

 tribution, many other species may be found at conserva- 

 tory range I, near the mimosa family. To the right 

 of the mimosa family may be found the bed devoted to the 

 pea family; to this some of our most valued economic 

 plants belong, such as the pea, the bean and the clover, 

 which may be found at the economic garden; to the pea 

 family belong also the baptisias, the bush-clovers, the 

 vetches, the tick-trefoils and many other familiar plants. 



Next in the order of sequence is the geranium family, to 

 which belong the geraniums or crane's-bills; the plants so 

 often cultivated in the house under the name of geraniums, 

 but which are not hardy out of doors in our climate, are 

 really not what they are called, but are truly pelargoniums, 

 a closely-related group of plants belonging to the same 

 family; our common wild geranium or crane's bill may be 

 found, among other plants here. A little farther on, near 



