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parent stems of vines still attached to buildings some cen- 

 turies old, are found nearly as large as the trunks of 

 good-sized forest trees. 



NOTE I. 

 THE SNOW-DROP, page 70. 



Mr. Knapp tells us in the text, that in England the 

 Snow-drop will linger longer than any other plant on the 

 site of a deserted garden, outlasting, in this way, as a 

 memorial of human tillage even the rose-bush, the plumb- 

 tree, or the daffodil. With us the pansy, heart's-ease, or 

 garden-violet appears to have something of the same char- 

 acter ; we have found it opening its pretty, lowly blossoms 

 among the grass, the only vestige of a flower-garden, 

 ploughed up more than thirty years earlier. 



NOTE J. 



THE VERVAIN, page 71. 



We have in the United States several native Vervains, 

 and one species of European origin ; the nettle-leaved 

 Vervain, Verbena urticifolia, has become one of our road- 

 side weeds. We are told that verbena was a Latin name 

 given to any sacred herb, and by no means confined to 

 the single family of plants to which the term .Vervain is 

 now applied. 



NOTE K. 



THE MISTLETOE, page 71. 



The Mistletoe has been sometimes asserted to be un- 

 known in America ; but this is an error. The yellow Mis- 

 tletoe, Viscurn Jlaviscens, is found on the trunks of old 



