IN SILENT WOODS IIQ 



yellow, richer than any seen there since Marsh 

 Marigold time. But in late Summer this color has 

 left the low, wet shade, and come up to the dry 

 Oak woods, where leaf - mold is compacted into 

 blackened loam, and the undergrowth is of Laurel, 

 Blueberries, Brakes, and slender Wood Sunflowers. 

 In such haunts the straight, leafy stalks of smooth 

 Yellow False Foxglove, the branches all turned 

 upward, rise four, five, and often six feet. The 

 wide-lipped, tube-shaped flowers, two inches in 

 length, smooth outside but velvety within, make 

 golden wands of the stalk-top and branches, the 

 color creeping up and outward as the buds unfold. 



The old name of this plant was Oak -leaved 

 Gerardia, from Gerarde of herbal fame and from 

 its leaf form. It seems a fitting name, as the 

 flower is dependent upon certain organic matter for 

 maintenance and seems to find a satisfactory supply 

 of this in Oak woods. 



False Foxglove grows in Time o' Year's woods 

 also, and along the glen road below the Lilac 

 House. But to see it in its glory, one must fol- 

 low the river down past its mingling with the salt, 

 then thread Sunflower Lane and take the narrow 

 track made by hay wagons across the salt meadows 

 to Wakeman's Island. 



