BUTTERCUP GROWING 61 



name. While enjoying to the full the tempered 

 sunshine the old tragedy is not repeated, the most 

 searchingly jealous blasts of boisterous March being 

 powerless to cut short its fair existence. 



The flower of the hyacinth though normally of a 

 rich blue-purple may not unfrequently be found of 

 a pure white a variation that we shall be careful 

 in our woodland rambles to be on the watch for. 

 The odour of the flower is very strong, and, though 

 very sweet, is almost too powerful for some folk 

 the rich fragrance arising from a large mass of its 

 blossoms, in their unfortunate case, producing 

 giddiness and a sense of nausea. 



The R. amplexicaulis is an interesting buttercup 

 to grow. Its large white flowers are quite suffi- 

 ciently in accordance with one's idea of what a 

 buttercup should be, but the very simple form of 

 foliage, and its habit of clasping the stem, at once 

 attracts notice. We figure it in Plate XLIII. Yet 

 another foreigner may be found on Plate XLVI. : 

 this is the mountain buttercup, R. montanm. Our 

 specimens were one of the numerous results of a 

 holiday in Switzerland, plant-hunting in its aim. 



The pilewort, or lesser celandine, we must have, 

 for Wordsworth's sake I and our own and perhaps 



1 " Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, 

 Let them live upon their praises : 

 Long as there's a sun that sets, 

 Primroses will have their glory ; 



