MAPLE LEAVES.

October turned my maple's leaves to gold;
The most are gone now; here and there one lingers;
Soon these will slip from out the twig's weak hold,
Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

FROM KŒHLER'S MEDICINAL PFLANZEN. MANDRAKE. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY
A. W. MUMFORD, CHICAGO.

Description of Plate.—A, B, parts of the plant about natural size; 1, flower bud; 2, flower; 3, stamens; 4, ovary; 5, fruit; 6, seed coat; 7, seed.