The country folk hereabout call it 'Horsetail.' It belongs to the Crptogamous or flowerless plants.

There are only four specimens of this plant in America.

I, too, have always greatly admired the plant." The Professor was quite a noted botanist.

There were few flowers, plants or weeds of which he was ignorant of the name or medicinal value.

Another bird lazily picked seeds from the thistle blossoms.
"See," exclaimed Aunt Sarah, "one bird has a spear of grass in its mouth!" "Yellow star grass," said the Professor, "with which to make a nest.
They never mate until the last of June, or first part of July.