STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 
Till Cowslips wan and Daisies pied 
Broider the hillock’s side, 
And opening Hawthorn buds are seen 
i Decking the hedge-row screen ? 
What though the Primrose, drest 
In her pure modest vest, 
Came rashly forth 
To brave the biting North, 
Did ye not see her fall 
Straight ‘neath his snowy pall? 
And heard ye not the West Wind sigh 
Her requiem as he hurried by ? 
Go hide ye, then, till groves are green 
And April’s clouded bow is seen, 
Till suns are bright, and skies are clear, 
And every flower that doth appear 
Proclaims the birthday of the year. 
—C. P. T. 
Liver-LEAF—WIND-FLOWER—Hepatica acutiloba (DC.). 
(PLATE I.) 
“ Lodged in sunny clefts, 
Where the cold breeze comes not, blooms alone 
The little Wind-flower,* whose just opened eye 
Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.” 
—Bryant. 
The American poet Bryant has many happy allusions 
to the Hepatica under the name of “ Wind-flower.” The 
more common name among our Canadian settlers is “ Snow- 
flower,” it being the first blossom that appears directly 
after the melting of the winter snows. 
In the forest—in open, grassy woods, on banks and 
upturned roots of trees—this sweet flower gladdens the eye 
with its cheerful starry blossoms; every child knows it and 
fills its hands and pinafore with its flowers—pink, blue, 
deep azure and pure white. What the daisy is to England 
- The blue-flowered Hepatica triloba is evidently the flower meant by the poet. 
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