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fragile creatures still linger in more rural parts 
of Massachusetts; but they are doomed every- 
where, unconsciously, yet irresistibly ; while 
others still more shy, as the Lzxua@a, the yel- 
low Cypripedium, the early pink Azalea, and 
the delicate white Corydalis or “ Dutchman’s 
breeches,” are being chased into the very re- 
cesses of the Green and White Mountains. 
The relics of the Indian tribes are supported 
by the legislature at Martha’s Vineyard, while 
these precursors of the Indian are dying un- 
friended away. 
And with these receding plants go also the 
special insects which haunt them. Who that 
knew the pure enthusiast, Dr. Thaddeus Wil- 
liam Harris, but remembers the accustomed 
lamentations of the entomologist over the de- 
parture of these winged companions of his life- 
time? In a letter which I happened to receive 
from him a short time previous to his death, he 
thus renewed the lament: “I mourn for the 
loss of many of the beautiful plants and insects 
that were once found in this vicinity. C/ethra, 
Rhodora, Sanguinaria, Viola debilis, Viola 
acuta, Dracena borealis, Rhexia, Cypripedium, 
Corallorhiza verna, Orchis spectabilis, with 
others of less note, have been rooted out by 
the so-called hand of improvement. Cicindela 
vugifrons, Helluo preusta, Spheroderus steno- 
