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Purple-Flowering Raspberry

Rubus odoratus. Rose Family.

Stem.--Shrubby, three to five feet high; branching; branches bristly and glandular. Leaves.--Three to five-lobed, the middle lobe prolonged. Flowers.--Purplish-pink; large and showy; two inches broad. Calyx.--Five-parted. Corolla.--Of five rounded petals. Stamens and Pistils.--Numerous. Fruit.--Reddish, resembling the garden raspberry. This flower betrays its relationship to the wild rose, and might easily be mistaken for it, although a glance at the undivided leaves would at once correct such an error. The plant is a decorative one when covered with its showy blossoms, constantly arresting our attention along the wooded roadsides in June and July.

BASIL.

Calamintha Clinopodium. Mint Family.

Hairy; erect; one to two feet high. Leaves.--Opposite; oval; scarcely toothed. Flowers.--Small; pink or purplish; in close globular clusters with noticeably long, hairy bracts. Calyx.--Two-lipped; upper lip three-the lower two-cleft. Corolla.--Two-lipped; upper lip erect, sometimes notched; the lower spreading; three-parted. Stamens.--Four. Pistil.--One, with two-lobed style. Ovary.--Deeply four-lobed.

Bordering the woods and fields in midsummer we notice the rounded, silky-bracted flower-clusters of the basil.