216 THROUGH GLADE AND MEAD. 
The Gaultheria and the two species of Chimaphila 
cover the forest floor as we go in search of the ginseng, 
the rarest of our species of Avalia. Its habitat is in the 
cool dark woods, where on these hot July days we do 
not wonder it loves to dwell. There it is pleasant to 
seek for it, although the little brook which in spring 
flowed laughingly by is now hushed, and the pale 
mosses that lined its banks and covered the stones with 
such a soft green carpet now pine for its companionship 
again. There is now a hush upon the forest shades, but 
there is life there, rich and exuberant, full of change 
and full of charm. 
