120 MOUSE-EAR IIAWKWEED. 



licst llowtT, the llowcr, perchance, on whicli 

 the eye of man may never rest, sown by the 

 wind on the ledge of some bold precipice or 

 in the far off wilderness, has myriads of 

 active beings swarming round it. Beautilul 

 creatures, likewise, which no human eye 

 may look upon, yet perfect in their kind, 

 are attracted by the shelter which the lone 

 flower yields them, and are nourished by its 

 beauty, rendering in return those treasures 

 beneficial to the plant itself, which would 

 othcnvise continue as unprofitable as hoarded 

 gold to the miser. 



The months in which the common hawk- 

 weed expands its yellow-tinted petals to the 

 sun are those of beauty and luxuriance. 

 Almost every other flower is then open, 

 and all kinds of insects are abroad. Bees 

 are seen in quest of honey or farina, with 

 'which to construct their waxen cells ; you 

 may hear their pleasant hum as they hasten 



