The stalk branches only for the flowers, and varies from 12 to 16 inches in height; it is round, and slender, roughened by short small hairs, and is somewhat zigzag in manner of growth. Of a green or reddish-purple color. The leaf is oval, pointed at both ends, with an entire margin, and strong midrib; both surfaces are rough and woolly. The color is green. The lower leaves are sometimes 4 inches in length, and narrow. The leaves are set immediately upon the stem, at long intervals. The flowers are slightly notched at the tip. A strong yellow color. The cup is vase-shaped, hairy; and green. The heads are set on slender, rough-hairy stems, and arranged in a terminal cluster; a small leaf occurs at the junction of the stems. The blossoms open only in the broad sunlight, and when plucked wilt quickly, thus losing their chief charm, a jaunty carriage. [Illustration: HAIRY HAWKWEED: H. Gronovii.] *Wild Lettuce.* _Lactuca hirsuta._ Found on waysides, and edges of thickets, in July. The simple leafy stalk grows to be 3 or 4 or 5 feet high; it is hollow, and large, with a strong fibre, a thick, milky and bitter juice, and a tough skin whose surface is somewhat hairy. The color is usually a dark purplish-red. The long leaf is deeply cut, or lobed, even almost to the wide midrib,--the lobes pointing toward the base of the leaf,--the tip taper-pointed; the upper leaves are slightly or not at all lobed; the surface is smooth above, sometimes hairy on the underside of the midrib. The arrangement is alternate, the leaves partly clasping the stalk. In color a full green, the midrib of the lower leaves a dark reddish-purple. The minute flowers are collected in small heads, set in vase-shaped green cups; their color varies from a light, dull lavender, to a dingy white. The heads grow in branching clusters from the summit of the stalk. The stout, tall, dark red stalk and broadly veined leaves make this a conspicuous inhabitant of the roadside; its small flowers however do not seem to fulfil the promise put forth by this vigorous growth. The dark brown, flattened seeds have fine, white, dandelion-like plumes. [Illustration: WILD LETTUCE: Lactuca hirsuta.] *Wormwood.* _Artemisia Absinthium._ Found during July and August along roads and lanes. The stalk grows from 2 to 3 feet high, and is branching, and shrubby; its fibre is strong, it is slightly grooved, and silky to the touch. In color silvery green. The rather small leaf is often divided to the midrib, the divisions being long and narrow; the surface is smooth, with fine silky hairs. Color, silvery green. The leaves are set upon the stalk in clusters, alternately; they have an aromatic scent. The flowers are very minute, of a pale yellowish-green color, and clustered in small hemispherical heads, in pale green cups; their heads, nodding along the sides of the slender branchlets, form long terminal spires.