48 THROUGH GLADE AND MEAD. 
This is the spring beauty, one of the favorite flowers 
with those who have been fortunate enough to find it. 
The chance discovery of that somewhat rare and 
curious moss, Buxbaumia aphylla, L., directed the 
attention of Sir William J. Hooker, the organizer 
of the Royal Gardens at Kew on their present high 
basis, towards botany and fixed the bent of his long 
and active life. ‘ 
The blue cohosh or pappoose-root (Caulophyllum 
thalictrotdes, Michx.), flowering at Kew, gave Robert 
Brown, the foremost botanist of his time, an opportu- 
nity to make the observations recorded in one of his 
papers, “On some Remarkable Deviations from the 
usual structure of Seeds and Fruits.” Its seed at an 
early stage of its growth bursts the pericarp or en- 
velope, the withered remains of which are in most cases 
visible at the base of the seed, which thus ripens naked. 
Whatever can be found anywhere of botanical 
interest can be found represented in some form in our 
local flora. . 
“The wild marsh-marigold shines like fire in swamps 
and hollows gray” 
in English counties, and it shines just as brightly under 
another name, cowslip, in our own meadows and low- 
lands. Do insectivorous plants attract the attention of 
