198 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL, 
Although not a common plant, we are sometimes so fortunate 
as to find the beard’s tongue on rocky hillsides, or in the wood 
borders. Its beard is even handsomer than that of the western 
variety.. 
P. Newberryi (Plate CIV) is a pretty variety that is found 
growing on rocks in the far west. It is clearly presented by 
the illustration. 
CULVER’S ROOT. 
Septandra Virgtinica. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Figwort. White. Scentless. Vermont westward June-Septenber. 
: and southward. 
Flowers: growing in terminal, dense, spike-like racemes. Calyx: four or 
five-toothed. Corolla: tubular; the tube long, four or five-lobed. Stamens: 
two; protruding. /%sti/: one. Leaves: on short petioles ; lanceolate ; whorled ; 
serrate. Stem : three to eight feet high; erect; stiff. 
The height to which this plant grows is always a source of 
wonderment. It is not an inherited trait, as none of the mem- 
bers of its immediate family is so tall. Perhaps it simply longs 
to peep over the top of the trees that grow near it in the cool 
woods or to call attention to itself when it blooms in the mead- 
ows. The plant is also called Culver’s physic and Black-root. 
WILD BERGAMOT. 
Mondrda fistulosa. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Mint. Rose purple, or Leaves, fragrant. Mass. southward June-August. 
white. and westward. 
Flowers ; growing in aterminal head. Calyx: tubular ; five-toothed ; hairy 
in the throat. S/amens: two, protruding. zstz/: one ; style, protruding, two 
lobed at the apex. Leaves : opposite; lanceolate; slightly heart-shaped at the 
base; toothed and veined. As they approach the flower they take the colour of 
the corolla. 
Unlike the Oswego tea, the whole of which plant is delight- 
fully fragrant even down to the roots, and which will emit a 
strong scent after the bloom and leaves have dried away, 
the foliage alone of the wild bergamot is fragrant. ‘The plant 
is a rather coarse one, but very effective. It blooms luxuri- 
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