A LABRADOR SPRING 
Another flower, almost as charming as the 
orchid, I found for the first time on this day, 
springing up from its procumbent mass of 
dark, evergreen foliage, the mountain avens 
or dryas, a rock nymph rather than a wood 
nymph, however, for it grew on the scanty 
soil of the limestone ledges close to the 
sea. The leaves are arrow-head_ shaped, 
dark, shining green above, white below, while 
the flowers, growing in abundance on short 
erect stems, open their lovely white cups, 
like single roses, to the sky. Where the buds 
of these conspicuous flowers were hidden 
but a week before, I do not know, although 
I had collected and pressed this pretty 
evergreen without even suspecting that it 
would be covered with conspicuous flowers a 
week later. The mountain avens extends its 
range through arctic America even to Green- 
land. 
Another exceedingly pretty little flower, a 
lilac coloured one, that sprang up on the lime- 
stone rocks at this time, was especially notice- 
able on account of its leaves which were cov- 
ered with a white powder below. This was a 
variety of the mealy primrose, and, curiously 
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