FIELD FLOWERS 



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BUT, among those of March, April, 

 May, June, July, remember the glad 

 and festive names, the springtime syl- 

 lables, the vocables of azure and dawn, 

 of moonlight and sunshine ! Here is the 

 Snowdrop,or Amaryllis, who proclaims 

 the thaw; the Stitch wort, or Lady's 

 Collar, who greets the first-communi- 

 cants along the hedges, whose leaves 

 are as yet indeterminate and uncertain, 

 like a diaphanous green lye. Here are 

 the sad Columbine and the Field Sage, 

 the Jasione, the Angelica, the Field 

 Fennel, the Wall-flower, dressed like 

 a servant of a village- priest ; the Os- 

 mond, who is a king fern ; the Luzula, 



