IN SILENT WOODS 



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main some belated tufts of low flowering Phlox. 

 The first thought is of wonder that a plant "escaped 

 from gardens" should have chosen so lonely and in- 

 hospitable a lodging ; 

 but memory comes 

 presently to aid the 

 eye, and names the 

 flower Wild Blue 

 Phlox, of the same 

 tribe as both the 

 Wild Sweet William 

 of more southerly 

 moist woods, and the 

 Creeping Moss Pink 

 of dry or rocky soil. 

 Rosettes of smooth 



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round leaves follow WILD BLUE PHLOX 



each other from under a Beech tree, in the strag- 

 gling procession suggestive of tap -roots, while 

 groups with larger leaves support straight flower - 

 stems hung with scalloped, bell -shaped florets, which 

 give the perfume, at once sweet and aromatic, that 

 is peculiar to the Round -leaved Pyrola, Shinleaf 

 or Wintergreen, still called by Time o' Year Wild 

 Lily -of -the -Valley. 



"Yes, I know it ain't a Lily," he said one day 



