G3 WILD FLOWEKS O SPBlNO. 



effect on their system. It grows on a stem about sh 

 inches high, and occasionally lurks amongst grass, but 

 this is not common. It flowers from May to June, 

 and is plentiful in Somersetshire. 



But we must leave the spring woods, and as we pass 

 into the open country 



" Look at these flowers, just peeping from their nest 

 Of moss and leaves, so beautifully shy. 

 It may be that the sight as yet is new, 

 Or else methinks I love these lowly ones 

 More than the rose herself, and better far 

 Than boughs with fruitage crown'd the dazzling wreaths 

 Which deck yon wilding cherry, white as snow, 

 Save where a faint soft blush, all but invisible, 

 Steals o'er the whiteness," 



