WILD FLOWEES OP MABCH, 

 (CONTINUED.) 



CHAP. VI. 



VERNAL INDICATIONS. VARIOUS SPECIES OF VIOLETS. 

 GOLDEN SAXIFRAGE, TUBEROUS MOSCHATEL, WHITE AND 

 YELLOW AWLWORTS. DAFFODILS AND SALLOWS. WIND- 

 FLOWER. 



" Smell at my Violets ! I found them where 

 The liquid south stole o'er them /on a bank 

 That lean'd to running water. There's to me 

 A daintiness about these early flowers 

 That touches one like poetry." 



The practical botanist now begins to have something 

 to do, and unable to restrain himself as the sun beams 

 forth in splendour from an azure sky, is off to the 

 deep recesses of the wood. The book of nature has 

 always something instructive on its opening pages, 

 and should nothing better than an old yawning and 

 decaying stump meet the view, ugly and dissightly to 

 a common observer, it may be worthy of botanical 

 notice. Its chinks may be studded with the curious 

 Bulgaria inquinans, forming numerous black balls of 

 a leathery consistency, or great polypori may, like 

 relentless creditors, be the destroying incubi of its 

 last resources. But this is mere still life, and there 



