WOODLAND PATHS 



Under foot the sphagnum* build the bog 

 and hold chief sway, but other common 

 varieties dispute the footing with them. 

 Here is the acutifolia with its pointed 

 leaves giving the tufts the appearance of 

 a bunch of pointed petaled chrysanthe- 

 mums, the greens and purples softly shad- 

 ing into one another and showing a fine 

 contrast with the drier, yellower portions 

 of the plant. Here, too, is the edelweiss- 

 like squarrosum in its loosely-crowded 

 clusters of bluish green, and the robust 

 cymbi folium. 



All these grow from their own debris 

 in the wettest portions of the footing. 

 Wherever there is, in this many-colored 

 and lovely carpet, a dead cedar trunk the 

 dainty cedar moss, creeping everywhere, 

 has occupied the space with its delicate 

 fern-like leaves, making of all ugly rotten 



wood the loveliest furnishing imaginable 

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