The American Botanist 



\< >1.. XXX. JUL^', 19-M. No. 3 



Never in its life has the sun seen shade, 



Never in its life seen a shadow where it falls; 



There, always there, in the sun-swept glade, 



It lurk.s below the leaf, behind bodies, under Walls, 



Creeps, clings, hides — be it million, he it one — 



The sun sees no shadow and the shadow sees no sun. 



Lawrence Housman. 



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••)EN 



THE SPRING BEAUTIES 



By W1LI.ARD N. Ci^uTiv 



T r is scarct'h- necessar\- to write of the sprini^ l)c.'itit\- tor 

 tlmsL' wild li\c within it>- r;ui,L;\\ h'r(tiii Xn\-a Scotia to Sas- 

 katchewan and >outh to Te.xas and Geors^na it is a common 

 and welld<nown ])lant in all siiitahle localities, it is especially 

 fond of low woods and the hanks of streams, but is disposed 

 to shun the i)rairies and open spaces generally. 'I'hose who 

 have suggested that this jilant he protected 1)\ law nin>t l)e 

 residents of grassland regions. 



That the plant is in no need of protection in parts of its 

 range, at least, is seen fn>m our frontispiece which was made 

 from ;i \ iew in a i)iece of wild woodland near Joiiet Here 

 the earth is so thicklv >trewn with hlossoms and to gi\e it the 

 appearance of being covered witii belated snow-drifts. 

 ^ .\Ithough S(» abundant the flowers are rarely gathered in 

 22|uantit\- because the indixidual blossoms are rather evanes- 



•cent and do not open well in the house. It seems to recpiirc- 

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