100 PLANTS GROWING IN MOIST SOIL, 
the love of Heaven, have a look at some of your species and if 
you can get me some seed, do.” 
Professor Darwin did prove successfully what he believed. 
In each flower the two sets of stamens and the pistil are of 
different lengths; and in order to effect fertilization, the 
stigma must receive the pollen from stamens that are the same 
length as itself. As in dimorphous flowers, this is one of the 
most ingenious devices to guard against self-fertilization. 
The plant is not related, as its common name would imply, to 
the other loosestrifes, which are members of the primrose fam- 
ily. It is a European, very lovely in appearance, which has 
taken kindly to our wet soggy soil. 
CARRION-FLOWER, CAT-BRIER. 
Smilax herbacea. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Smilax. Greenish, with Foul, General. April, May. 
yellow. 
Flowers: small; imperfect; growing in umbels. Perianth: bell-shaped, of 
six divisions. Stamens: six. Fistid: one, with three diverging stigmas. Fruit: 
a blue-black berry; glaucous. Leaves: almost round at the base, pointed at 
the apex; nerved. Stem: smooth; erect; climbing. 
In the season of its bloom the odour of this plant serves to 
identify it with one of its commonnames. As the flowers fall, 
however, it becomes less obnoxious and is one of the first to 
foretell by its rich, changing colouring the approach of the au- 
tumn. Its near relative, S, rotundifdlia, is not so partial to 
moist soil and is well-known along the roadsides and fields. 
MEADOW PARSNIP. 
Thaspium barbinode. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR "RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Parsley. Yellow. Scentless. Northward to Minn. May, June. 
South to Arkansas. 
Flowers : very small: growing in umbels, or compound umbels. Leaves: al- 
ternate ; twice or thrice compound, with long, narrow, coarsely toothed leaflets. 
Stem : tall; hollow; with soft, fine hairs along the joints. 
The parsleys are a family that we should all learn to know, if 
for no other reason than that the root and seeds of many of 

