168 STARLIGHT AND SUNSHINE. 
a cluster of the sweet pink flowers in the woods! But these 
“odorous beds” are strewn with the pale pink bells when the 
pyrolas come upon the scene, and the tiny creeping-twins of the 
fragrant partridge-vine hardly make their lisps known as against 
the more asserting presence of the pyrolas. It is hard to speak 
in moderation of these perennial woodland plants. There are 
four or five of them in more or less constant association, all with 
their lily-of-the-valley breath. - 
The pyrola is the perennial hostess of the groves. She does 
the honors at all seasons. Go into the woods at any time and 
you are sure of her. Even in the bleakest winter’s day how do 
her spires of seed-pods and her fresh, lusty leaves against the 
snow quicken our pulses and bring back the summer! The 
shin-leaf, with its light green foliage of spring suggesting a tiny 
clump of lettuce, is perhaps the most omnipresent of the group; 
but the two pipsissewas, known as the princess pine and spotted 
wintergreen—the former with its rich green, highly polished leaf, 
and the latter dull of surface but conspicuously veined with white 
—are perhaps the most beautiful, and with their reptilian com- 
panions of rattlesnake hawkweed and rattlesnake plantain, form a 
notable quartet of lowly foliaged plants. 
Who has gathered the complete posy of our fragrant wild 
flowers? I have not yet chanced to see a list that pretended to 
include them all. My own list I thought complete long ago, but 
every year adds its fresh item. Here it is up to date—confined, 
especially, to our New England flora—and with apologies to the 
slighted ones: 
FRAGRANT FLOWERS. 
HERBS AND UNDER-SHRUBS. 
Trailing arbutus (Zpzg@a repens), White clover (7rzfolium repens), 
Dutchman's Breeches (Décentra Canaden- Buffalo clover (7rzfolzum reflexum), 
sts), Yellow melilot (AZe/¢lotus officinalzs), 
Partridge-vine (A/z/chella repens), White melilot (AZellotus alba), 
Evening primrose ((Enothera biennzs), Lucern (Medicago satzva), 
Ground-nut (Afzos ¢uberosa), Twin-flower (Lzxne@a borealis), 
Toad-flax (Lénaréa vulgarts), Pine-sap (onotropa hypopitys), 
Moth mullein (Veréascum blattariéa), False wintergreen (Pyrola rotundifolia), 
Red clover (7rzfolvum pratense), Shin-leaf (Pyrola elliptica), 
