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tlowers of varied form and color, but all mo^st beautiful. 

 In June the large, snowy 'rrillium may be found covering 

 moist, shady banks with its superb wax-like flowers, and 

 often with this, though usually in dryer situations, grows 

 the painted Trillium and the large purple Trillium, with a 

 fourth species bearing smaller, nodding, white Howers. 

 These are the most showy of all our early flowers, and 

 well deserve a place in the finest garden. The first named 

 and finest of these is found in no other of the New England 

 states. Passing many interesting families of plants well 

 represented in the state, we will notice only a few of the 

 most impoitant and larger ones. The moisture-loving 

 Ranunculacea> are abundant all over the state, and some of 

 the rarest species are found here. One of these, the very 

 rare Atragene, grows over rocky hillsides shaded l)y larger 

 growths, and in ^lay bears its large, drooping flowers on 

 their slender peduncles. Blossoming later and very much 

 more common, we have the white-flowered Clematis ( 6'. 

 virrfiniana). I^ate iu the fall this may be seen twining 

 about the branches of alders and other shrubs by the sides 

 of almost every stream and waving its plumed seed-vessels 

 in every breeze. Both of these vines are easily cultivated, 

 (^uite a numl)er of species of Anemone arc found in the 

 state; most of them grow in rocky, dry soil and blossom 

 all summer. The Cowslips are very abundant in some 

 meadows and carpet them with golden yellow, while the 

 Buttercups are as plenty in pastures and along roadsides. 

 The pretty and delicate flowers of the Dielytra family 

 (^FunmriacecB) grow in many of our woods and rocky fields. 

 In early spring the Dicentras or squirrel corn, as they are 

 sometimes called, spring up in' open woods and very soon 

 produce beautiful wands of flowers, while in mid-summer 

 the golden j'ellow and the flesh-colored Corydalis, half 

 su^jported by some friendly rock, lift their faces to the 

 sun tmd still later and more rare than all is the elegant 

 Adlumia, twining gracefully over the rocky sides of some 

 ravine and bearing long, pendant clusters of rose-white 

 flowers — the most beautiful of all our fall vegetation. 



