
PLANTS GROWING IN MOIST SOIL. 97 
DWARF CASSANDRA. LEATHER-LEAF. 
Chamediphne calyculata, 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Heath. White. Scentless. Throughout the middle states. Larly spring. 
Flowers: small; growing in one-sided, open leafy racemes. Calyx: of 
five sepais, having a pair of bracts at the base. Corolla : cylinder-shaped, 
with a five-lobed border. Stamens: ten, Péstil: one. Leaves: oblong; in 
texture like leather ; glossy above and dull beneath. An evergreen, branching 
shrub; two to four feet high. 
The English name of these plants is suggestive of the texture 
of the leaves, which is like leather. We find them in swamps 
and bogs as well as in the moist soil of low meadows. 
BUTTON-BUSH. RIVER-BUSH. GLOBE FLOWER. 
HONEY-BALLS. (Plate XLV.) 
Cephalanthus occtdentalts. 
FAMILY . COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Madder. White. Very fragrant. General. July, August. 
Flowers : small; clustered in a spherical head. Calyx : four-lobed, Corolla: 
tubular ; four-lobed ; within hairy. Stamens: four. Pést/: one, protruding, 
with a button-like stigma. Leaves : opposite, or whorled in threes; oval; on 
petioles ; stipules between the leaves. A shrub five to ten feet high, with 
rough, grey bark. 
The button-bush is like the children that cannot believe they 
are by the water until they have taken off their shoes and 
stockings and gone in paddling. It has usually its lowest 
stems and roots immersed in some brook or river; and we are 
invariably delighted with the curious, quaint effect of its bloom. 
The flower-heads are like little pin-cushions full of pins. Their 
perfect symmetry and the beauty of each flower when examined 
separately makes them a pleasing study. 
BLUETS. QUAKER LADIES. (Plate XLV7.) 
Hloustonta certulea. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Madder. Blue, with yellow Scentless. Nova Scotia to Michigan May, June. 
centre. and southward. 
Flowers: terminal; solitary. Ca/yx: four-cleft. Corolla: salver-shaped, 
with four oval, pointed lobes. Stamens: four. Pistil : one; style compound. 
