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the green lines have any significance, as have the 
faint green checkerings of the Fritillary, which I 
have described elsewhere in this book, they add 
to its interest ; but ordinarily they make the petals 
seem undeveloped. The Snowdrop bears the mark 
of one of the few tints of green which we like in 
white flowers; its “heart-shaped seal of green,” 
Spring Snowflake. 
sung by Rossetti, has been noted by many other 
poets. Tennyson wrote: — 
“ Pure as lines of green that streak the white 
Of the first Snowdrop’s inner leaves.” 
A cousin of the Snowdrop, is the “ Spring Snow- 
flake ” or Leucojum, called also by New England 
country folk “ High Snowdrop.” It bears at the 
end of each snowy petal a tiny exact spot of green ; 
