Nat. Ord. Ranunculacea. 
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(SHARP LOBBD HEPATICA.) 
Hep&tica Acutiloba. 
“ Lodged in sunny clefts, 
Where the cold breeze come not, blooms alone 
The little Wind-flower, whose just opened eye 
Is bine, as the spring heaven it gazes at.” 
Bryant. 
HE 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 off of the winter snows. 
In the forest—in open grassy old 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 bosom 
with its flowers, pink, blue, deep azure and pure white. What the 
daisy is to England, the Snow-flower or Liver-leaf is to Canada. 
It lingers long within the forest shade, coyly retreating within its 
sheltering glades from the open glare of the sun : though for a time 
it will not refuse to bloom within the garden borders, when trans- 
