Plants Growing in Rich or Rocky 

 Soil : Deep Woods and Hillsides. 



In the deep woods spring is not proclaimed by the blasting 

 of trumpets and the waving of gaudy banners. The inhab- 

 itants creep in softly and gravely and take their places ; for 

 the timid, the elfish, the proud and the solemn are all alike 

 in their love of the silence and shadows of their home. They 

 shrink from rather than attract the attention of passers by ; 

 and when seeking them we are impressed with the idea of 

 intrusion. We are not invited to their revels. It is the 

 buzzing bee, the singing birds and the bright little animals 

 that make merry with them. And wJien they are sorrowful 

 and the seasons are dark, so that gleams of sunshine come but 

 feebly tJirough the tree tops ; the dripping moisture is 

 Nature's lamentation with them. 



JACK=IN=THE=PULP1T. INDIAN TURNIP. (Plate LXX.) 



Ariscenia triphylluin. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



A runt. Green and pinkish purple. Scentless. General. April, May. 



flowers : tiny; clustered at the base of a fleshy spadix, which is enveloped 

 by a spathe, the point curving gracefully over the spadix. Leaves : two only ; 

 of three ovate, pointed leaflets that rise far above the spathe. Scape : erect ; 

 pinkish. Conn : turnip-shaped and abounding in farinaceous matter. Fruit I 

 a mass of scarlet berries. 



" Jack-in-the-pulpit 



Preaches to-day, 

 Under the green trees 

 Just over the way. 



