The Crowded Flora Of
June Is The Very Carnival Of Nature, In Our Climes.
"Our Parish" is no
exception.
The Ladies' Slippers, Kalmia Smilacina, etc., may still
be gathered in the greatest abundance throughout most of this month. Here
is also the bunch of Pigeon berry, in full bloom, the Brooklime Spedwell,
the Blue-eyed-grass, the herb Bennet, the Labrador Tea, the Oxalis
Stricta and Oxalis acetosella, one with yellow, the other with
white and purple flowers: the first grows in ploughed fields, the second
in the woods. "Our sensitive plant; they shut up their leaves and go to
sleep at night, and on the approach of rain. These plants are used in
Europe to give an acid flavor to soup." Here also flourishes the Linnea
Borealis, roseate bells, hanging like twins from one stalk, downy and
aromatic all round. In the middle of June, the Ragwort, a composite flower
with yellow heads, and about one-half to two feet high, abounds in wet
places by the side of running streams. Also, the Anemone, so famous in
English song, principally represented by the Anemone Pennsylvanica,
growing on wet banks, bearing large white flowers; add the Corydalis,
Smilacina racemosa resembling Solomon's Seal. Here we light on a lovely
Tulip bed; no - 'tis that strangely beautiful flower, the pitcher plant
(Saracenia Purpurea). Next we hit on a flower not to be forgotten, the
Myosotis palustris or Forget-me-not. Cast a glance as you hurry onwards
on the Oenothera pumila, a kind of evening primrose, on the false
Hellebore - the one-sided Pyrola, the Bladder Campion - silene inflata,
the sweet-scented yellow Mellilot, the white Yarran, the Prunella with
blue labrate flowers the Yellow Rattle, so called from the rattling of the
seeds.
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