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the woodlands. For ages the whole plant has been 

 used for a yellow dye, and in connection with woad 

 (Isatis) for the dyeing of wool green. An alkaline 

 salt is obtained from its ashes. 



BY THE EIVEE AND THE STBEAMLET. 



T~N the summer-time the banks of the streamlet are 

 covered with glory, as we wander by 



" The sad waters, sad and chilly 

 With the snows of the lolling lily," 



or recline beneath the fat alder or the hoary willow. 

 What is more beautiful than 



" A river in a greene mede, 

 There as sweetnesse evirmore inough, 

 With floureis white and blewe, yellow and rede"? 



And amongst the white flowers what is more fragrant 

 than the Meadow-Sweet ( Spiraea ulmarid) , which adonis 

 the river-bank ? "We all know its multitudinous cream- 



