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Butter-and-eggs, the Toad-flax, which was once a 
garden child, but has run away from gardens to wan- 
der in every field in the land. I haven’t the slight- 
est reason for this regard of Butter-and-eggs, and I 
believe it is peculiar to myself, just as is Dr. Forbes 
Watson’s regard of the Marshmallow to him. I 
Bouncing Bet. 
have no uncanny or sad associations with it, and I 
never heard anything “queer” about it. Thirty 
years ago, in a locality I knew well in central Massa- 
chusetts, Butter-and-eggs was far from common; I 
even remember the first time I saw it and was told 
its quaint name ; now it grows there and every- 
where ; it is a persistent weed. John Burroughs 
