
134 PLANTS GROWING IN MOIST SOIL. 
quently being lobed ; pale underneath. Stem: tall; from five to ten feet 
high ; leafy. 
A common plant in moist soil along the roadsides and thick- 
ets, Its great height and large leaves make it conspicuous, 
especially in the autumn, From it the humming birds gather 
down to make their nests, 
JOE-PYE-WEED. TRUMPET-WEED. (Plate LXV///.) 
Eupatorium purpureum. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Composite. Crimson purple. Scentless. General. Late summer. 
Flowers: small.; growing in dense, compound corymbs at the end of the 
stem and branches. Coro//a: tubular ; with long protruding styles of a light 
lavender colour which give the flower-head its soft, fluffy appearance. Leaves: 
whorled in groups of four to six, lanceolate, rough; toothed and deeply 
veined, sometimes with purple. Szem : occasionally twelve feet high ; rough ; 
purple. 
‘Old Joe-Pye’s in the pasture again,’ the farmer cries ; and 
his wife nods sympathetically without, perhaps, turning her 
head to look across the lowlands at the soft tint lent to the 
landscape by this handsome weed. It received its quaint name 
from a New England Indian doctor who is said to have cured 
typhus fever by its use. 
CUT-LEAVED GOLDEN ROD. (Plate LX/X.) 
Solidago arguta. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Composite. Greenish yellow. Scentless. New Hampshire to Late summer. 
Pennsylvania. 
Flower-heads + growing on stalks in a dense pyramidal raceme. Lays: six 
to seven, large, spreading. Leaves: lanceolate ; thin ; serrated. Stem: 
angled ; smooth. ) ‘i 
Many books might be written about the golden rods and the 
story then be only partly told. We know them as a brilliant 
family which gradually appear among us, sending up first green 
stems from their perennial roots, then opening sparingly a few 
buds ; and before we can realise that they have returned to us, 
they have thrown out a mass of bloom that illuminates almost 
every field and waste corner. Their message to us is hardly as 

