8G WOOD SORREL. 



the thought of sunbeams breaking from 

 among the driving clouds. So sun -like is 

 the effect produced by the glow of that 

 bright ilower. Among the standing corn, 

 and contrasted with the rich brown ears, 

 the cjanus, or corn-flower, has its own pe- 

 culiar beauty, a coronet of sky-blue florets, 

 every floret a fairy vase, in the depth of 

 which is secreted a sweet nectar for bees 

 and butterflies. This flower is named Cya- 

 nus, after a young devotee of Flora, who de- 

 lighted to linger in the fields, and to weave 

 garlands of richly tinted flowers. And those 

 flowers common to the summer months uni- 

 formly absorb the sunbeams without re- 

 flecting them in any considerable degree. 

 Its own pure tint, therefore, may be as- 

 sociated vvdth the wild wood sorrel, as af- 

 fording a sure indication of the season of 

 its flowering, and place of growth ; an in- 

 dication which never fails, wherever the eye 



