The Press., 1894-06-21
(For The Press.) SOME JUNE FLOWERS.

In New England most of the trees and d great proportion of the flowers bloom in May and June. In early June the tulip tree (scientific name lirisdendron) blos- soms tulip-like, but larger, greenish- yell low shading into orange.
 Towering dogwood (cornus), ), local name boxwood, of which the conspicuous part is the involucre Cor cluster of leaves at the base of fower) of four white leaves, often unequal in size, larger over an inch long, circularly notched at the blunt out CT end; a slender tree in rocky woods. Some five other species of dogwood, small whitish. flowers int ffattish cymes or clus- ters, without involucre; in autumn a stone-fruit, usually blue; stiff shrubs, in thickets: the red-osier dogwood in broad clumps in brooksides.
 Mountain or high laurel, or spoonwood, (kalmia,) and the small sheep laurel, the deepish cut fiattish at the bottom with 10 depreeeione, in high laurol light, and in sheep laurel, deep rose-colored flowers Purple azalea, or swamp apple, and white or clammy azalea, small shrubs; flowers funnel form, in clusters; mostly open in May.
 Chestnut, hickory, and some species of oak, arrow-wood (viburnum), local name withe-wood, and the slender little maple leaved arrow-wood.
 Common elder. Honeysuckle, very slender, twining; blossoms yellowish tubes, at or near the top upper pairs of leaves united, 80 that the stem seems to grow through. Red raspberry, blackber- ry, high, and low. Wild rose, sweet brier, and the swamp rose, with single row of petals. The scarlet-fruited thorn, greenbrier, catbrier, (smilax), baswood or linden, Ctilia), sumachs, (rhus), in- cluding poison sumach and poison ivy. Wild grape.
 Of herbs or plants, oxeye daisy, golden ragwort or squaw-wood, sparse yellow rays on a stalk feet high, with narrow ragged-edged leaves. Wintergreen, (pyr- da), pipeisewa or princes pine. Indian pipe, or corpse plant, waxywhite, glassy, turning blackish with age: 8 to inches high, growing like fungus on the roots of tree, or on decaying vegetable matter; pine-sap, similar to the foregoing, but tawny. Plantain, welLknown plant, blossoms and seeds on 8 long slender spike. Painted-cup, local name nose- bleed, upper leaoes bright scarlet, with pale yellow inconspicuous tubular blos- soms, alternating, up the stalk. Louse- wort, with sparse, jagged leaves; stalk 5 to 12 inches, crowned with short, dense | spike of mint-like, greenish- yellow. and purplish flowers, followed by sword shaped projecting seed pods. Wild Sar- saparilla. Cinqueboil, leaves as of straw berry, together; flower yellow. Cranes bill, (geranium), light purple.
 Cats foot, ground ivy or gill, (nepeta), is closely related to catnip, but trails. | Four-leaved milkweed, a slender species 1; I flower pale pink. Field sorrel. Two species of buttercup or crowfoot, (ranun- culus). Indian turnip or dIgSon root {: Jack ck-in-the-pulpit. Sweet flag. Arrow head, in ditches. Arrow arum. Ladies' slipper, (cypripedium), our only common species c. acsule, under lip of flower a rose-purple, veiny bladder, cleft in front, oval, about 3 inches long, on naked scope, rising about foot from the two large base leaves; in woods.
 1 Iris, or large blue flag. Blue-eyed grass, (siryrinchium). Star-grass, (hy- lpoxys), greenish outside, yellow within the flower. White trillium or wake-rob- in; nodding trillium; and purple trilli- um or birthroot, late specimens known by the three-fold arrangement of petals, sep als, and stem-leaves. White trillium petals are often two inches long purple, over one inch. Indian poke (veratrum) in swamps, rank, leafy, two feet high, greenish flowers, in spikes; poisonous plant; root very poisonous.
 There are many others of course, but more difficult to describe, so that non. expert could distinguish them. Of flow. eriess plants, some ferns are now forming lspoFes: as the common shield-fern oi wooded hillsides (aspidium acrostic hoide), or wood.fern, over foot in tho plume, which Is thick, stiff, and smooth the scythe-shaped side leaves entire ol undivided. The cinnamon fern, clothed with rusty wool when young, fruits oI the central fronds of the bunch, while tn, outer grow on; feet, frequently.
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