benjamins ( Ttillium erediim ) abound, and the painted trillium ( Tril- 

 lium erythrocarpum ) with its white face. Here we find the mayflower 

 (Epigcva rcpens) nestling in its bed of snow, and Jack-in-the-pulpit 

 ( Ariscca triphyllum ) preaching to hundreds of his brothers. A 

 little later the whole hillside under the century -old trees blossoms 

 out, for the foam flower ( Tiarella cordifolia ) and the Canada Ma}'- 

 flower ( Maia)ithemuvi Canadc7ise ) hide the many violets as they 

 change from yellow to white and to ])urple, and the glad yellow of the 

 Clintonia borcalis grows richer in the moss. Here, in sunnner, the 



Pale Laurel. 



wax-like members of the heath famil}- tempt us by their profusion, for 

 the shin-leaf, or lily-of-the-valley ( Pvrola cUiptica ) grows in beds by 

 the side of the shining-leaved Princes' pine, or Pipsissewa {Chimophila 

 umbcllata) , near the beautiful, one-flowered pyrola { Moneses grandi- 

 flora ), and their degenerate cousin, the parasitic Indian pipe ( Mono- 

 tropa 7iniflora ), the ghost-flower, or corpse plant, hides its pure white 

 stalks in the depths of the woods among the dead leaves. The brook 

 at the edge of the woods runs murmuring through the meadow and 

 loses itself beneath the heavy growth bej^ond. On the hillside huge 

 boulders lie strewn about in picturesque abandon, as if just from the 



