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flowers, growing upon the summit of its only stem, and wafted 

 here and there by every breeze that passes over it. Three leaves 

 grow out of the same part of the stem, each leaf stalked, five- 

 ]obed, lobes deeply toothed. Root leaves of the same shape : 

 Root creeping, black. 



" Nymph of the wood and forest glade ! 

 In thy own fair vestal robes arrayed. 

 In the calm of the silent sylvan bowers, 

 'Tis sweet to gaze on thy drooping flowers. 

 Chaste and pure as the driven snow. 

 Yet faintly tinged with a purple glow. 



Like mountain crests, 

 On some Alpine height, 



When the snow-drift rests 



In the evening light ! 



" Nymph of the wood and the sheltered glade, 

 I would linger with thee in the forest shade. 

 I would sit by the secret fount along, 

 Soothed by the waters lulling tone. 

 There's a lesson of hope in that woodland flower, 

 While we mark the deep traces of love and of power. 



In her lowly bed, 



By the dew-drops fed, 



Mid the beauty that dwells, 



In her drooping bells." The Wild Garland. 



O. S Pasque Flower Anemone, Blue Mountain Anemone, and Yellow 

 Wood Anemone the last very rare. 



MARSH MARIGOLD. CALTHA. 

 COMMON MARSH MARIGOLD. Caltha palustris. 



Plate 7, fig. 19. 



Everywhere in ditches and on river banks in the early Spring ; 

 bearing large yellow flowers, without a calyx a flower and a 

 leaf growing together, and alternate, on the stem, which is 

 large, hollow, striped, and fleshy. Leaves from the root stalked, 

 heart-shaped, scolloped, those of the stem sessile, toothed, 

 triangular or kidney-shaped. Capsules numerous, generally 

 ten or twelve. The country people in many places pluck the 

 young flower buds, and pickle them instead of capers. The 

 whole plant is, like many others of this class, poisonous. 



CROW-FOOT. RANUNCULUS. 



* Floivers white. 

 WATER CROW-FOOT. Ranunculus aquatilis. 



Plate 7, fig. 20. 

 Leaves roundish, lobed, or else finely cleft. Petals large. 



