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RED 



[Red or occasionally Red Flowers not found in Red Section.J 



Wood Betony. Pedicularts Canadensis. April or May. 



(Yellow Section, p. 128.) 



Huckleberries, etc. . May and June. (White Section, pp. 51-54.) 



Herb Robert. Geranium Robertianum. Summer. (Pink Section, p. 226.) 



WILD COLUMBINE. 



Aquilegia Canadensis. Crowfoot Family. 



Twelve to eighteen inches high. Stems. Branching. Leaves. Much- 

 divided ; the leaflets lobed. Flowers, Large; bright red ; yellow within ; 

 nodding. Calyx, Of five red petal-like sepals. Corolla. Of five petal; 

 in the form of large hollow spurs, which are red without and yellow within 

 Stamens. Numerous. Pistils. Five, with slender styles. 



41 A woodland walk, 



A quest of river-grapes, a mocking thrush, 

 A wild-rose or rock-loving columbine, 

 Salve my worst wounds," 



declares Emerson ; and while perhaps few among us are able to 

 make so light-hearted and sweeping a claim for ourselves, yet 

 many will admit the soothing power of which the woods and 

 fields know the secret, and will own that the ordinary annoy- 

 ances of life may be held more or less in abeyance by one who 

 lives in close sympathy with nature. 



About the columbine there is a daring loveliness which stamps 



