answered its end only when it met the eye of man; a 

 reticulated leaf, visible only on one side; little things 

 which make one pause in the woods, take captive 

 the eye. 



Journal, ii, 407. 



August 27, 1856. These oval leaves [of the rattle- 

 snake-plantain], perfectly smooth like velvet to the 

 touch, about one inch long, have a broad white mid- 

 rib and four to six longitudinal white veins, very 

 prettily and thickly connected by other conspicuous 

 white veins transversely and irregularly, all on a 

 dark rich green ground. Is it not the prettiest leaf 

 that paves the forest floor.'' 



Journal, ix, 28. 



