ILLUSTRATORS' NOTE 



THE thanks of the illustrators for valuable 

 assistance are due to Miss Mira Lloyd 

 Dock, Miss Martha Buehler, Professor 

 F. A. Waugh, Captain Charles Mcllvaine, and 

 particularly to Mr. O. P. Beckley. 



The full -page plates are engraved directly from 

 the photographs. The text cuts, with but two 

 exceptions, have been drawn over the original 

 photographs, showing that mechanical accuracy 

 and artistic effect are not incompatible. The 

 initials of the illustrators indicate the part taken 

 by each in the work. 



LIST OF FULL -PAGE PLATES Pac|ng 



page 



A Fern Haunt (frontispiece) M. O. W. . 



The Coming of Spring False Hellebore, 



Skunk Cabbage, etc J. H. McF. . 4 



Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Wild Ginger, etc. . . 



Spring Beauty 



Wild Mandrake 



Dutchman's Breeches 



Shadbush 



Large Blue Flag 



12 

 19 



22 



27 

 30 



37 



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