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crepis comosa). The small purple Acinos vulgaris, may 

 also be noted here. 



In the general landscape ere the hay harvest com- 

 mences, the pastures flash in refulgent spreads of 

 brightness, where the red heads of the Honey-suckle 

 Clover blend into rich mingled tints with the golden 

 yellows of the Butter-cups and Bird's-foot Trefoils, 

 while a bronzed hue prevails where the spikes of the 

 Sorrel (Ilwnex acetosa), stud the field. Composite 

 flowers as Crepis virens, and Hypocliceris radicata arise 

 on every side to add to the bright gilding of the sum- 

 mer scene. The picture is animated by numbers of 

 the Green Forester Moth (Ino S tat ices), fluttering 

 above the grass in great numbers, their rich tinted 

 wings glittering in the sun. 



If we trace the river side and the deep bed of the 

 wintry torrent, where now a nearly exhausted rill only 

 oozes, the ground is blue with the little Veronica Bec- 

 cabunga, spreading in dense patches, while proudly 

 erect, the rosy heads of the great Bistort (Polygonum 

 Bistorta), are seen in lovely array; and the Meadow 

 Hue (Thalictrum flavuni) , droops its clustered stamens 

 over the yellow Moneywort (LysimacJiia nummularia). 

 spread over the ground at its feet. 



Slowly we now climb the woody cliff that on either 

 hand shadows the bright river, that here smooth as 

 chrystal sleeps in the bright glare of noon, there hur- 

 rying o'er the shallows, musically echoes upon the ear. 

 Let us rest in this nook, where umbrageous beeches 

 wave their branches high in air, and the ground forms 

 a rough glacis from the dismembered rocks that topple 

 far above our heads, where many a golden Hawkweed 

 glows beyond all reach or grasp. Here in the cool 



