120 PLANTS GROWING IN MOIST SOIL, 
their shoulders. In cultivation they resign this burden into the 
hands of the gardener, and the whole cyme becomes composed 
of neutral flowers. It is then known as the snowball tree, or 
the guelder rose, V. Alnifolio, Plate XCIX. 
ELDER. ELDERBERRY. 
Sambucus Canadénsis. - 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Honeysuckle. White. Sweet, like honey. General. June, July. 
Flowers: minute; growing in large flat cymes. Ca/yx: tubular, with small 
teeth. Corolla: urn-shaped; five-lobed. Stamens: five. ystil: one, with 
three stigmas. /7uzt: a purple berry, juicy with the flavour of wine. Leaves: 
pinnate; of five.to eleven, oblong, pointed, serrate leaflets. Stem: five to ten 
feet high; woody with white pith. 
Our grandmothers loved the elder, and as religiously as they 
wove their linsey woolseys and worked their samplers they 
made elderberry wine. Probably they found it, as we do, ex- 
tremely good to the taste, and it is besides supposed to possess 
a considerable amount of virtue. Along streams and in moist 
soil by the roadsides the bloom and berries of the plant are 
very noticeable. Every country child knows the elder, and 
little boys are on most friendly terms with it. They push out 
the white pith from the stems, light the ends, and initiate them- 
selves into the mysteries of that more soothing weed which they 
hope to know later. 
JEWEL-WEED. TOUCH-IIE-NOT. (Pilate LVZ//.) 
Impatiens bifléra. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Jewel-weed. Orange yellow spotted with Scentless. Common south- Summer. 
reddish brown. ward. 
Flowers : clustered ; axillary ; nodding from thread-like flower-stalks. Calyx: 
of four petal-like, unequal sepals; the larger one extending backwards into a 
sac which tapers into a little spur. Coro//a: of two petals that are two-lobed. 
Stamens: five ; cohering about the ovary. /vst7: one. Leaves: alternate; on 
petioles; ovate; smooth andserrated. Stems: much branched ; smooth ; tender. 
The jewel-weed and a bright running stream have come to be 
about as closely associated in the mind as the dear old white 
horse and the red-haired girl. Now there is no doubt whatever 
