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 MAYFLOWERS (EPIGMA REPENS) 



April 4, 1859. The epigsea looks as if it would 

 open in two or three days at least, — showing much 

 color. The flower-buds are protected by the with- 

 ered leaves, oak leaves, which partly cover them, 

 so that you must look pretty sharp to detect the 

 first flower. These plants blossom by main strength, 

 as it were, or the virtue that is in them, — not grow- 

 ing by water, as most early flowers, — in dry copses. 



Journal, xii, 114. 



April 29, 1852. The mayflower on the point of 

 blossoming. I think I may say that it will blossom 

 to-morrow. The blossoms of this plant are remark- 

 ably concealed beneath the leaves, perhaps for pro- 

 tection. It is singularly unpretending, not seeking 

 to exhibit or display its simple beauty. It is the most 

 delicate flower, both to eye and to scent, as yet. Its 

 weather-worn leaves do not adorn it. If it had fresh 

 spring leaves it would be more famous and sought 



after. 



Journal, iii, 480. 



WOOD ANEMONES 



April 28, 1856. Many Anemone nemorosa in full 

 bloom at the further end of Yellow Thistle Meadow, 

 in that warm nook by the brook, some probably a 

 day or two there. I think that they are thus early 



