LETTER XXXIX. 



WILD FLOWERS IN GAKDENS — THE SHOWER. 



Thebe are some beautiful villagers to whom I have given 

 an asylum in my garden. 



The molena, with its large leaves, covered with a white 

 down, raises its long stalk, terminated in a spike of yellow 

 flowers, by the road-side ; it nourishes five or six lepidoptera 

 ^^ulgo, butterflies) besides beetles. 



There are many plants which seem thus to quit the fields 

 to come and place themselves by the road-sides; curious and 

 coquettish as they are, they are seldom met with anywhere 

 else. 



Near the molena, the viperina blows in the sun ; its stalks 

 variegated with green and brown, are loaded with little spikes 

 wliich form one large one by their position. These little spikes 

 have at the same time blue flowers at their base, and rose- 

 coloured buds at their extremity. 



In the same manner, in the road sides, the foxglove throws 



