WILDWOOD WAYS 



good freeze. Yet to-day in the smiling 

 sun I found the young leaves of the Ra- 

 nunculus bulbosus green and succulent 

 and unharmed of their cellular structure, 

 and so I am sure they will remain, under 

 the snow or bare, as the case may be 

 when the first yellow bud pushes upward 

 from that white bulb where it is now pa- 

 tiently waiting the word. Our botanists 

 who study heroically to find some minute 

 variation in form that they may add an- 

 other Latin name to their text-books 

 might study these variations in habit and 

 result and tell me the reason for them. 

 I 'd be glad to buy some more books on 

 botany; but none that I have seen have 

 so far within their pages any explanation 

 of this puzzle. 



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