Jersey Mountains and Meadows 235 



It is very similar to the Scarlet Painted- Cup that 

 Bryant wrote about as growing on the prairies.' 



Frequently country folk call this flower Indian's 

 Paint-Brush; it somewhat resembles a clover tuft 

 daubed with vermilion. The species found in New 

 Jersey and Staten Island are the same. Thoreau found 

 the scarlet tufts of the Painted-Cup '* very common in 

 the meadows " on Staten Island in 1843.' The Alpine 

 Painted-Cups of the White and Green Mountains are 

 somewhat difi'erent from the species found southward 

 and westward. A friend collected flowers of these 

 strange plants near Woodmont in the vicinity of New 

 Haven, and about Marbledale, Connecticut. These 

 are typical little Figworts. 



The lobelias, gerardias, milkweeds, butter-and-eggs, 

 Leopard's- Bane (^Arnica acaulis), and field daisies 

 are common in the pastures and woods of St. Cloud 

 and Pleasant Valley. In the distant swamps the Sweet 

 Bay Magnolia {Magyiolia Virginiand) and the Tulip 

 Tree are the only two common northern species of the 

 Magnolia Family, A single tulip tree is found in the 

 Hoosac Valley, at North Pownal. Tulip trees are 

 abundant in New Haven, Connecticut, and in Bronx 

 Park, and also on Orange Mountains. They thrive 

 especially westward and southward, where they become 

 beautiful flowering trees — often one hundred and forty 

 feet high. 



As I came down the Northfield Road from St. Cloud, 



' Bryant, The Painted Cup. 



' Thoreau, Letters. To Sophia Thoreau, May 22, 1S43. 



