(X) FLOWERS OF THE FIELD AND FOREST. 



anists. This genus, which contains some six or eight exclusively 

 American species, is closely related to the Darlingtonia, a curi- 

 ously hooded Pitcher-Plant of the Sierra Nevada mountains, and 

 the still more singular Nepenthes, from the islands of the Indian 

 Ocean, which have tendril-like prolongations of the leaf, some- 

 times two feet or more long, becoming at their ends, perfectly 

 developed pitchers. 



Altogether, when we get among these plants with such strange 

 forms and such wonderful habits and functions, we can begin to 

 understand something of what our Longfellow meant when he 

 wrote of that great naturalist, his well-beloved friend, Agassiz; 



And Nature, the old nurse, took 



The child upon her knee, 

 Saying: "Here is a story-book 



Thy Father has written for thee." 



f ' Come wander with me,'' she said, 



"Into regions yet untrod; 

 And read what is still unread 



In the manuscripts of God." 



And he wandered away and away 



With Nature, the dear old nurse, 

 Who sang to him, night and day, 



The rhymes of the universe. 



And whenever the way seemed long, 



Or his heart began to fail, 

 She would sing a more wonderful song, 



Or tell a more marvellous tale. 



