274 PLANTS GROWING IN DRY SOIL. 
the coming year would make them brides. It has been lauded 
in ancient poetry, and probably more associated with good and 
evil than any other plant. 
Sarothra gentianoides, orange-grass, or pine-weed, has tiny 
flowers of a deep yellow scattered along the branches, The 
leaves are small, erect and wiry. It is commonly found in dry, 
sterile or sandy soil from Maine southward and westward. 
The generic name of the plant was formerly Hypericum nudi- 
caule, 
INDIAN TOBACCO. 
Lobelia tnflati. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Lobelia. Violet, blue, or white Scentless. General, June-August. 
Flowers: axillary ; growing in terminal, leafy racemes. Ca/yx : tubular ; 
inflated; veined; five-cleft. Covo//a: tubular; split down the upper side ; 
the five lobes very regular. Sézens: five 3 united 3 the anthers bearded. 
Pistil: one. Pod: inflated. Leaves: sessile; ovate; hairy. Stem: one to- 
two feet high ; erect ; branched ; hairy. 
Unfortunately this lobelia does not shed abroad a very en- 
nobling influence among its companions, Its narcotic proper- 
ties are well known and have been rather indiscriminately used 
by the Indians. They chew and smoke the dried leaves, which 
have a bitter flavour like tobacco. The plant is a poisonous 
one and has been largely employed as an emetic. It is, in fact, 
a rather plebeian relative of the cardinal flower. 
CORN-COCKLE. CORN-ROSE, 
Agrostémma Githigo. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Pink. Crimson purple. Scentless. General. Sucy-September. 
Flowers: terminal; solitary. Calyx: large, with five linear lobes alternating 
with and exceeding the corolla. Corolla: of five rounded petals. Stamens: 
ten. estil: one; styles, five. Leaves : opposite ; linear-lanceolate; pale green; 
hairy. Stem: stout, erect; much branched; four-angled. 
The generic.name lychnis, which was formerly applied to this 
plant and which means a lamp or light, expressed well the effect 
of the corn-cockle in our grain fields. It illuminates them with 
a blaze of crimson light and causes the traveller to exclaim, the 
fields here are as beautiful as they are in England, 

