

84 PLANTS GROWING IN MOIST SOIL. 
most gorgeous in the sunshine,when the slanting rays of the sun 
upon the petals appear like aluminous maze of changing colours. 
About Cape Cod it is very common, and all along the New 
England coast it grows in great profusion. 
BLAZING STAR. DEVIL’S BIT, DROOPING STAR= 
WORT. 
Chameltrium liteum. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Bunch-flower. White. Scentless. Mostly south and west. May-July. 
Flowers: small; staminate and pistillate; nodding; growing ina spike-like 
raceme. Leaves: lanceolate; becoming linear; sessile. Aasal leaves: spat- 
ulate ; tapering into a long petiole. 
These wand-like racemes of inoffensive little flowers make 
us wonder what mischief they could ever have indulged in to 
have been connected with the devil. In fact, it is even incon- 
siderate of that individual not to have chosen for him a bit of 
more substance. 7 
STOUT STENANTHIUM. (Plate XXX/X.) 
Stendnthtum robustum. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Bunch-flower. White, with green Scentless. Penn. southward July, August. 
centre. and westward. 
Flowers: clustered in a long, panicled, light raceme. Perianth: of six 
lance-like, pointed divisions. Stamens: six, short. /zsti7: one. Leaves: 
linear ; grass-like; nerved. Stem: erect; high. 
A lovely, high, waving plant which bends and sways with 
the cool breezes on the lonely prairie, or in the moist meadows. ~ 
Its stately air and soft colouring recall to mind a fair débutante 
in spotless tulle with long streamers of green satin ribbon. 
No less than she is the flower a belle of the prairies. 
FOUR-WINGED SNOWDROP TREE. (Plate XZ.) 
Mohrodéendron Carolinum. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Storax. White. Scentless. Mostly south and west. March, April. 
Flowers: growing in loose racemes along the branches. Calyx: short; 
four-toothed, Corolla: bell-shaped ; drooping; four, or five parted. Stameits: 

