24 SHARP EYES 



If the open winter lures any wood blossom to " open 

 its eye," it will surely be the liverwort, even as this 

 flower occasionally anticipates the spring in ordinary 

 winter weather. I have before me a letter from an au- 

 thority who picked them under a foot of snow on De- 

 cember 9th, and this, too, in a winter not notably mild. 



Truly, then, it is upon the hepatica that the varie- 

 gated mantle of the swamp -cabbage flower has fallen. 

 Look at its purple-mottled leaf and be convinced. 



