42 T H E A M E R I C A X BOTANIST 



lungifolia. Adiantum tenerum, Blechnum occidentale, Neph 

 rodiiiin iiiollc and Acrosticuni aureum. The well-known 

 Gymnoyraiumc calamelanos has become naturalized in Bom- 

 bay. The hook is well illustrated and well printed. It is is- 

 sued by D. R. Tara[)oreva]a Sons & Co., Bombay, and costs 

 7 Rupees and 8 Annas. 



In early April, the first flowers to greet the searching eyes 

 were those of the Anemone hepatica or liver-leaf, which 

 blooming at Easter were once named Paas-blumtjc. Cousin- 

 german to the European pasque flower, it is, with its evergreen 

 leaves and persistent vitality, a better symbol of the resurrec- 

 tion, and more perhaps than any other of our wildflowers gives 

 the welcome sense of quickened life in the woods and fields. 

 Nestled among the branching roots of a great tree, or in the 

 crevices of a rock, from among the cluster of last year's leaves 

 — ^three lobed leaves of an ivy-green and purplish crimson un- 

 derneath — rise a dozen slender stems wrapped in silken hairs ; 

 and from the furry involucre delicate in texture and tint as the 

 silvery-tipped paws of a Maltese kitten, opeii to meet the sun- 

 shine glad flowers of every shade from hyacinthine purple to 

 the windflower's rose-flushed pallor. Their fragrance is a 

 subtile aroma distilled in the waiting buds by the first warm 

 breezes and tells of fresh running sap, of bursting leafbuds and 

 swaying catkins. It is the breath of the April days; Nature 

 has awakened; the Lord is risen! — Martha B. Flint. 



