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mone, lily of the valley, and wood sorrel, 

 offer familiar instances. Light shades of 

 rose and azure, and various tints of yel- 

 low, are also common to the spring. Sum- 

 mer flowers, on the contrary, are generally 

 of bright hues. He who passes through a 

 corn-field often observes with pleasure the 

 purplish red flowers of the corn-cockle, to 

 which is given the elegant name of Agro- 

 stemma, from two Greek words, signifying 

 a field and coronet, as if the garland of the 

 field. Among the standing corn also, uprises 

 the red poppy, from which the drapery bee 

 cuts the hangings of her cell. Nor less 

 obvious are the large yellow flowers of the 

 corn-marigold, giving a brilliancy to the 

 fields, and following the smi's course with 

 miwearied assiduity ; the charlock, too, or 

 wild mustard, with its bright yellow petals, 

 cheering the traveller when hasting to shel- 

 ter himself from a coming shower, with 



