WILD FLOWEES OF OCTOBEE. 

 (CONTINUED.) 



CHAP. XXV. 



A LOOK OUT UPON THE SERE AND YELLOW LEAF REFLEC- 

 TIONS ON A FOGGY MORNING COLOURS ASSUMED BY 

 TUB FOLIAGE OF FOREST TREES CHEMICAL SUGGES- 

 TIONS ON THIS PHENOMENON MOURNFUL ASPECT OF 

 NATURE SUPERSTITIONS APPERTAINING TO GROVES AND 



TREES FADING PICTURE IN RURAL LANES COLOURED 



BERRIES OF THE HEDGES NUTTING AND BOTANICAL 



STRUCTURE OF THE NUT THICKET BEAUTIES AND 



LOVELY ASPECT OF THE "WOOD HORSETAIL BRAMBLE 

 HUNTING NOTICES OF THE IVY AND ARBUTUS. 



" Now shift the scene to moonlight jilade, 

 "Where clapper elves beneath the shade 

 Of oak or elm, their revels keep 

 "What time we plodding mortals sleep. 

 Next, lead me to some haunted grove, 

 Such as the Fauns and Dryads love ; 

 Or seat me by some brook, whose swell 

 Makes music like a Naiad's shell : 

 Then touch the tree 'neath which I lie, 

 Till it unclose to ear and eye 

 Whate'er it may have heard or seen 

 Since Spring first cloth'd its stems with green." 



SPIRIT OF THE WOODS. 



WE are now literally touched by the " sere and yellow 

 leaf," vegetation is every where fading around us, and 

 the woods of October stand arrayed in unwonted yet 

 melancholy splendour. The mind contemplates this 



