196 Flowers and their Pedigrees, 



representatives of their kind now remaining on the 

 whole earth, left behind like the ark on Ararat amid 

 the helpless ruins of an antediluvian world. Well, 

 what these Mount Washington butterflies are among 

 insects, that are our pretty wild tulips hciv- among 

 English flowers. They remain to us as isolated relics 

 of an order that has long passed away ; and they help 

 us to rebuild with fuller certainty the strange half-un- 

 deciphered history of the years that were dead and 

 gone long before written books had yet begun to be. 



