DEW-DROP— WINTERGREENS. 
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thing like the cup of a pipe ; gradually, however, it erects itself 
as the seed ripens, and turns black when it decays. I have seen 
a whole cluster of them bordered with black — in half-mourninpf, 
as it were — though of a healthy white within this line. It was 
probably some blight which had affected them in this way. 
The pretty little dew-drop, Daliharda repens of botanists, is 
also in blossom — a delicate, modest little flower, opening singly 
among dark green leaves, which look much like those of the 
let ; it is one of our most common wood-plants ; the leaves fre- 
quently remain green through the winter. The name of dew-drop 
has probably been given to this flower from its blooming about 
the time when the summer dews are the heaviest. 
The one-sided wintergreen is also in blossom, with its little 
greenish- white flowers all turned in the same direction ; it is one 
of the commonest plants we tread under foot in the forest. This 
is a wintergreen region, all the varieties being found, I believe, in 
this county. Both the glossy pipsissima and the pretty spotted 
wintergreen, with its variegated leaves, are common here ; so is 
the fragrant shin-leaf ; and the one-flowered pyrola, rare in most 
parts of the country, is also found in our woods. 
Observed the yellow diervilla or bush-honeysuckle still in flower. 
The hemlocks still show the light green of their young shoots, 
which grow dark very slowly. 
Thursday, 19th. — Warm, clear day; thermometer 88. 
It happens that the few humble antiquities of our neighbor- 
hood are all found lying together near the outlet of the lake ; 
they consist of a noted rock, the ruins of a bridge, and the re- 
mains of a military work. 
The rock lies in the lake, a stone's throw from the shore ; it is 
