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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 Virginiensis), 

 wild -ginger (Asarum 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 



