The Press., 1894-08-30

feet high, and lower leaves opposite, ex- cept in the giant sunfower, in swamps, sometimes 10 feet high, with leaves alter nate, it's rays 15 to 20; two of the other species have 10 rays; one species to 12; one inch upward, in length, light yellow.
 Tansy is now in bloom, also elecampane, near houses. Of the strap-leaved com posites, rattlesnake-root and lions foot, mostly in shade. Stock often purplish, sometimes feet high; flowers nodding, half-inch long, in clusters of ? to 5, along the branching top of the stalk. Rattle Isnake-root, or white lettuce, has the flow er-sheath of 8 purple scales; flower long, bell form, white, with deep cinnamon-c -col- ored silk within. Lions foot, greener, outside; straw colored silk In both, the strap-fowers 8 to 12, tall, with scales.
 Of flowers not composite, Canadian St. Johns wort, deep yellow, small; and marsh St. Johns wort, larger, with blunt, oval, purplish leaves and fesh-colored flowers, followed by conspicuous deep-red pods, are very common in wet ground at this time. ss
 Of the pulse family, bush clover, stalk wand-like, but clothed with hree-parted clover-like leaves; topped with small, white, shOrt-tubed flowers, with red purple spot on the upper lip or standard :; ground-nut bean, twining and climbing, 5 leaflets to each leaf, flowers brown pur- pie, nearly chocolate color, in roundish clusters. The arrangement of flower is like that of the garden bean, but the parts are stouter, and the wings altogether stouter; in low grounds.
 Grass of parnassus, a saxifrage, about a foot high, bearing solitary white flow CT, Specialized, each petal conspicuously veined with gleenish through it's whole length, and oval, about three-fourths inch long; leaf thick, rounded and cIasping, near the base of the stalk, now blooms in moist grounds. Bedstraw, or cleavers, a square-stemmed, weak plant, with prickly corners, and small, white flowers, grows in mucky places. Spiked lobelia, slender, usually about IS inches high, it's pods without bladder, flowers pale blue, in long spiky clusters, is common in pastures. The monkey flower, square stemmed, about feet high; flower tubular, but with gaping lips, light violet-purple; over one inch long in wet places. False foxglove, 3 to feet high, usually without branches, leafy, and toward the top large, tubular or powder-horn shaped yellow flowers, each five-lobed at it's top; all the minor parts of the flower very downy. In open woods and shady roadsides.
 White vervain, (nettle-leayed vervain) feet high frequently; leaves opposite, coarse -toothed, flowers scattering, very small, white, tubular; in spikes; waste lgrounds. Blue curls, small mint-like herb, 3 inches, upward ;. flower deepblue, spreading open, stamen-stalks or thread projecting in a curve or half-circle. Wa ter horehound, plant resembling mother wort, but flowers white. Mountain mint, about 3 feet high; leaves smooth, stiff flowers crowded in dense heads, blooming a few at 8 time, whitish, with purple dots in stony ground. Horse balm, (rich-weed or stone-root), 1 to 3 feet high; leaves stemmed, 3 to 6 inches long, toothed flowers yellow, with lower lip longer and ragged fringed: plant smooth in rich, moist woods or borders.
 Pigweed, tall, pale green, mealy, with spikes of greenish flowers. Amaranth pigweed, fatweed, stout, coarse weed allied to the cultivated princes feather. Flowers in thick spikes, each flower near ly enclosed in 3 bristly bracts. Smart weed, or water pepper, with nodding spikes of whitish flowers; and lady's thumb, up- right spikes of greenish purple flowers, and triangular dark spot in the middle of each leaf, are very common around barnyards. Tear-thumb, with similar ap, pearance, has sharp, -toothed prickles on the corners of the stem, able to cut the skin. The door-weed, or knot grass, is a related species, spreading like a mat in trodden places. It is not a grass, but nearest allied to the foregoing, the knot weed (smart-weed) family, and to buck wheat, that is, 6eech-aoheat, the seed hay. ing the shape of the beechnut. About the middle of September the closed gentiar in brooksides, and the handsome fringed gentian on banks near water, are in bloom the former blue, shading into white, ir clusters of club-shaped flowers, an inch long. FIinged gentian, deep blue, deeI p-sbaped, sometimes two inches long Gentian stalks are f to 2feet high.
 Of the second great-division of plants those having no distinction into bark
 wood and pith, the peculiar orchis family have several special blooming in August The purple fringed orchis (pronounced Orkis) in wet meadows and bogs; about IS inches high; oblong leaves, about 3 smallest near the long, cylindrical spike of smallish purple flowers flower with g fan-shaped lip, fringed as if gnawed by 6 very narrow tooth, and long, curvine spur from the base of each flower. La dies tresses, about foot high; leaves clasped around the stalk, whose top is spirally twisted, shaping spiral Cor cork screw) spike of small white flowers; or shaded slopes. J. N. ENo. Il IT MAY Do AS MUCH FOR YoU.-Mr Fred Miller, of Irving, Ill.,, writes that ht had Severe Kidney trouble for many vaars with severe mains in his hack anC