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Flowers and their Pedizrees. 



out in the cool shade of popular neglect. So much 

 the better for those wandering naturalists who love 



to ramble among unhack- 

 neyed scenes, and to spy 

 out wild nature in all her 

 native loveliness, an Arte- 

 mis who only bares her 

 beauty among the deepest 

 and most secret recesses of 

 glade or woodland. 



Here by the bank of the 

 tiny torrent, where I shall 

 stop and rest on a smooth 

 stretch of naked rock for a 

 few idle minutes, there is 

 beauty enough in all con- 

 science to charm the spell- 

 bound eyes of any intrusive 

 Actaeon. The moist fis- 

 sures of the water-worn 

 granite are richly clad with filmy fronds of alpine 

 ferns ; the drier crevices among the tumbled rocks 

 are tufted with the black stems and graceful foliage 

 of the maidenhair spleenwort ; and the scanty alluvial 

 mould on the slopes beyond is carpeted by lithe 

 creeping sprays of beautiful branching clubmoss. All 



Fig. 41. — Lloydia serotina 

 (Mountain Tulip). 



