The native flowers and ferns of the United States in their botanical, horticultural and popular aspects . STAGGER-BUSH. Porcher says that it is employed in domestic practice as aremedy for herpes, which is an itching eruption of the skin. The Stao-eer-Bush is native in all the seaboard states fromRhode Island to Florida, and according to Dr. Gray it has alsobeen found in Tennessee, and even as far west as ease with which it grows in the writers garden, in groundmixed with a large quantity of small stones, shows that it is verywell adapted to general cultivation, and that the soil
The native flowers and ferns of the United States in their botanical, horticultural and popular aspects . STAGGER-BUSH. Porcher says that it is employed in domestic practice as aremedy for herpes, which is an itching eruption of the skin. The Stao-eer-Bush is native in all the seaboard states fromRhode Island to Florida, and according to Dr. Gray it has alsobeen found in Tennessee, and even as far west as ease with which it grows in the writers garden, in groundmixed with a large quantity of small stones, shows that it is verywell adapted to general cultivation, and that the soil will needno special preparation to receive it. According to Dr. Titford, the Stagger-Bush is also knownby the names of Moor-Wort and Wicke, the last of which,curiously enough, is the German common name for severalspecies of leguminosae. Explanation OF THE Platk. —I. Flowering branch. — 2. Twisted stamen. — 3. Arrange-ment of tlie stamens in the flower. — 4. Gynoecium. — 5. Cross section of the ovary. —The insect seen on the plant is the Macrodactylus suispinosus, or rose-beetle. Plate 4r. L, Prang % Company B. CERASTIUM ARVENSE. FIELD MOUSE-EAR CHICKWEED. NATURAL ORDER, CARVOPHYLLACE/E. Cerastium ARVENSE, Linnaeus. — Pubescent, somewhat crespitosc ; leaves linear-lanceolate,acute, often longer than the internodes; cyme on a long terminal peduncle, four-flowered;petals more than twice longer than the calyx; capsule scarcely exceeding the white, rather large. (Woods Class-Book of Botany. See also Grays Manual ofthe Botany of the Aorthern United States, Chapmans Flora of the Southern United States,and Brewer and Watsons Botany of California.)
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