52 HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS. 
Wordsworth says, “It is my faith that every flower 
which blows enjoys the air it breathes.” Some late 
writers go farther, and have written books about the 
“Sagacity and Morality of Plants and Flowers.” 
Besides the arbutus, there were in blossom the blue, 
yellow and white violets,—the last small but quite fra- 
grant,— trilliums, erythroniums, dentarias, dicentras, 
cardamines, wild ginger, aralia-trifolia, hepaticas and 
anemones. Here the hepaticas are all trilobas, instead 
of acuti lobas, as they are in the neighborhood of Buf- 
falo. Many of them were very blue, and possessed an 
agreeable odor. One of the prettiest little blossoms 
found was the hen and chickens (Anemone thalictroides), 
as Gray calls it from the flower, and (Zhalictrum ane- 
monoides), named by Wood from its thalictrum-like 
leaf. It is called “hen and chickens,” as it has a hand- 
some white flower in the center, surrounded by several 
smaller ones which blossom later than the one in the 
center. Those acquainted with this region know how 
rich and varied are its flora and fauna. Later will 
come azaleas, pyrolas, sweet-scented crab, several species 
of wintergreen, including the beautiful flowering one 
with purple fringe, Mitchella, Clintonias, orchids, lady’s 
slippers, fringed gentian, and many others. The rare 
and interesting birds are equally numerous. Within 
the radius of a hundred yards I have found the nests 
of six different species of thrushes. Among the war- 
blers here at present I noted the Blackburnian, black- 
throated green, black and yellow, yellow rumped, bay 
winged, chestnut sided, Canada and summer warblers. 
