AVILD FLOWERS OF NOVEMBEK. 



CHAP. XXVI. 



CRYPTOGAMIC VEGETATION, AND THE TRIBES COMPOSING 

 IT ASPECT OF THE FUNGI FAIRY RINGS BEAUTY OF 

 THE AGARIC AND OTHER TRIBES OFFICE OF THE 

 FUNGI NOTICE OF THE SMALLER FAMILIES NOMADIC 

 AND METEORIC PHENOMENA RAPID GROWTH OF THE 

 MUSHROOM, AND DERIVABLE SIMILES PLEASURES IN 

 SEARCHING OUT THE DIVERSIFIED FUNGOID FORMS. 



" When Flora's lovelier tribes give place, 

 The mushroom's scorn'd but curious race 

 Bestud the moist autumnal earth ; 

 A quick but perishable birth, 

 Inlaid with many a brilliant die 

 Of Nature's high-wrought tapestry." 



BISHOP MANT. 



WHEEE shall we cull a garland for November, amidst 

 wailing winds, scudding clouds, and driving leaves ? 

 Not surely in the garden, for there blight and desola- 

 tion fill the flower border with disordered heaps, 

 whirls of withered leaves rush about in disorganized 

 files as the fitful gales impel them, the butterfly is no 

 longer seen, and the hum of the bee has ceased to 

 murmur forth the exciting sound of sunny hours. 

 But there are still objects of attraction for the " Bota- 

 nical Explorator;" and leaving the poets to harp the 

 dirge of fading flowers at their leisure, we shall pro- 



