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cohort, hardy, but for the most part unobserved, 

 which linger till the snow buries them, and those in- 

 teresting re-appearing flowers which, though fair and 

 fresh and tender, hardly delude us with the prospect 

 of a new spring, and which we pass by indifferent, as 

 if they only bloomed to die. Vide Bryant's verses on 

 the Fringed Gentian. It is remarkable how tightly 

 the gentians roll and twist up at night, as if that were 

 their constant state. Probably those bees were work- 

 ing late that found it necessary to perforate the 

 flower. 



Journal, iv, 390. 



