A Series of Functions or Uses.

We find another illustration of the use of series in the first type of the expository paragraph in the excerpt which follows. The series here used is that of func¬tions or uses : Emerson says a weed is a plant whose virtues we have not yet discovered, but the wild creatures discover their virtues, if we do not. The bumblebee has dis¬covered that the hateful toad-flax, which nothing will eat, and which in some soils will run out the grass, has honey at its heart. Narrow-leaved plantain is readily eaten by cattle, and the honey bee gathers much pollen from it. The oxeye daisy makes a fair quality of hay, if cut before it gets ripe. The cows will eat the leaves of the burdock and the stinging nettles of the woods. . . . . Weeds that yield neither pasturage for bee nor herd, yet afford seeds to the fall and winter birds. I.	-JOHN BURROUGHS, Pefiacton.