neath it. Bryant, in his 

 " Twenty-seventh of 

 March," pictures it blos- 

 soming in company with the 

 liverwort, some days earlier in 

 date than his yellow violet, 

 while in his "Winter Piece" 

 it is the "wind-flower" that 

 heralds the spring. There are 

 many sponsors for the 

 Claytonia, or spring 

 beauty, the Dutch- 

 man's-breeches 

 (Dicentra cucul- 

 laria ), the rock- 



flower (Saxifraga Virginicnsis), 

 wild -ginger (Asartim Cana- 

 dense), anemone (A. nemorosa), 

 rue-anemone, dwarf-everlasting 



(Antennaria plant agini folia), bloodroot, and the tiny 

 whitlow -grass (Draba verna\ Many of them have 

 been gathered in the snowy woods of March in New 

 England, and some weeks earlier, of course, in more 



