196 IValks in New England 



The persistence and readiness of life is seen in 

 a thousand ways, as we note the way that the 

 small herbs are forming their foot leaves in rich 

 resets on the ground ; the five-finger, the evening 

 primrose, the robin s plantain, the saxifrage, the 

 various asters, the mullein. One never mentions 

 the grasses and the rushes, the flags and the 

 sedges, which are expected and sure, yet are 

 these not the perennial evidences of continuing 

 impulse and vigour ? Note, too, how the plants 

 flower anew under the encouragement of the rains 

 and warm suns, how the bygone asters and 

 golden-rods and mayweeds start forth with new 

 flowers and even groups of flowers. One may 

 find now pretty nooks in the pastures where there 

 are many dandelions in bloom dandelions which 

 arise from the seed plants of the spring. The 

 branching yellow violet and the branching white 

 are now occasionally found, and the common blue 

 hooded violet of the meadows. Black-eyed Su 

 san and ox-eye daisy start forth frankly upon 

 the autumn air, sure that they are wanted. The 

 wreath golden-rod is quite a common adornment 

 of the forest paths. Rarely there is a fringed gen 

 tian, very rarely. 



And the fragrances of the forest, that general 

 woodsy scent which fills all their aisles, the rich 

 bouquet of the fox grapes, the peculiar evanos- 



