upon the eye or ear. It is obvious that the cathe- 

 dral had its origin in the forest. What a fair and 

 devout congregation has jack-in-the-pulpit, where 

 the Canada violet stands side by side with the mede- 

 ola and the painted trillium. The medeola declines 

 its unfertilized flower, so that its maiden life is hid 

 from view beneath the tri-leaved canopy, and only 

 in its mature and matronly days does it begin to 

 ascend and take a position where the seed shall 

 crown the plant and be in evidence. From what 

 insedl despoiler is this shy virgin so carefully hid? 

 It seems as if the light that penetrates these 

 woods has undergone a change, or been deprived 

 of some of its rays, so that the wood flowers are 

 nourished by a finer food than the rest, as with 

 ambrosia. It is perhaps the subdued light which 

 inspires a certain solemn and hymn-like quality in 

 the notes of wood birds, as in the thrushes and the 

 altogether didadtic tone of the redeye. There is 

 here none of that self-assertiveness among the 

 flowers that is to be observed among certain groups 

 of plants ; the competitive spirit is lacking. Solo- 

 mon's-seal, bellworts and twisted-stalk, like mede- 

 ola, are rather at pains to conceal themselves. 

 There is no self-advertising among them. What 



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