62 OUTDOOR STUDIES 
charge to visit his favorite haunt and find an- 
other specimen. Armed with this letter of in- 
troduction, I sought the spot, and tramped 
through and through its leafy corridors. 
Beautiful wood-anemones I found, to be sure, 
trembling on their fragile stems, deserving all 
their pretty names, — Wind-flower, Easter- 
flower, Pasque-flower, and homceopathic Pulsa- 
tilla ; — rue-leaved anemones I found also, ris- 
ing taller and straighter and firmer in stem, 
with the whorl of leaves a little higher up on the 
stalk than one fancies it ought to be, as if there 
were a supposed danger that the flowers would 
lose their balance, and as if the leaves must be 
all ready to catch them. These I found, but 
the special wonder was not there forme. Then 
I wrote to him that he must evidently come 
himself and search; or that, perhaps, as Sir 
Thomas Browne avers that “smoke doth follow 
the fairest,” so his little treasures had followed 
him towards New York. Judge of my surprise, 
when, on opening his next letter, out dropped, 
from those folds of metropolitan paper, a veri- 
table double anemone. He had just been out to 
Hoboken, or some such place, to spend an after- 
noon, and of course his pets were there to meet 
him; and from that day to this I have never 
heard of such an event as happening to any one 
else. 
