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tribes ; taking the special name ' Aurora ' for the 

 red and purple ones of Europe, and resigning 

 the already accepted ' Rhodora ' to those of the 

 Andes and Himalaya. 



17. Of which also, with help of earnest Indian 

 botanists, I hope nevertheless to add some little 

 history to that of our own Oreiades ; — but shall 

 set myself on the most familiar of them first, 

 as I partly hinted in taking for the frontispiece 

 of this volume two unchecked shoots of our com- 

 monest heath, in their state of full lustre and 

 decline. And now I must go out and see and 

 think — and for the first time in my life — what 

 becomes of all these fallen blossoms, and where 

 my own mountain Cora hides herself in winter ; 

 and where her sweet body is laid in its death. 



Think of it with me, for a moment before I 

 go. That harvest of amethyst bells, over all 

 Scottish and Irish and Cumberland hill and 

 moorland ; what substance is there in it, yearly 

 gathered out of the mountain winds, — stayed 

 there, as if the morning and evening clouds had 

 been caught out of them and woven into flowers ; 

 ' Ropes of sea-sand ' — but that is child's magic 

 merely, compared to the weaving of the Heath 

 out of the cloud ? And once woven, how much 

 of it is for ever worn by the Earth? What 



