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MOUSE-EAR HAWKWEED. 



• HE hawkweed. What a lovely little 

 flower ! This, too, is one of Flora's 

 ^^;:'; watches ; it often grows on a dry 

 bank, in company with the scarlet i^impernel, 

 and the small blue forget-me-not, the wild 

 thyme, and marjoram. Bees and butterflies, 

 and " many-coloured things," close and open 

 their bright wings on its golden disk ; they 

 fly away and visit other flowers ; but they 

 soon return, as if unwilling to quit the bur- 

 nished resting-place on wliich they first re- 

 posed. 



The hawkweed ! what shall I say respect- 

 ing it; or rather, where shall I begin? for it 

 has much of beauty and utility, that ought 

 not to be hastily passed by. Observe its 

 golden-coloured petals. Those petals show 



