■ TREASURE SPOT OF WILD FLOWERS. J J 
are to be found growing in great profusion, the rattlesnake and 
sensitive ferns. 
But ferns are not the only flowerless plants to be found. Fungi 
and lichens are always plentiful. On the dry hill-tops there are 
three varieties of club mosses growing and the shaded rocks are 
carpeted with many species of true mosses. 
The flowers begin to open before the snow drifts have gone 
and last until the frosts have taken the last aster and stalk of 
goldenrod. The first to appear are the hepaticas growing high 
up on the sunny side of the rocks. A little later there are the 
graceful dicentras hanging on shelves in the ledges, so high up 
that they have been many times declared “ sour grapes ” by an 
envious passer-by. At any season this ledge is the gem of the 
woods. Around it can be found the little yellow violet, the first 
Fig. 22. A bed of Foam Flower, Tiarella cor difolia. 
spring beauty, the adder’s tongue, mitrewort, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, 
wild garlic, blue cohosh, purple trillium, red and white bane- 
berries, Canada violets in bloom nearly all the summer, downy 
violets, and the common blue violet (present in one or more of 
its many forms). There^is a clump of showy orchids which adds 
one or two to its number each season and a few stalks of purple 
or white fringed orchids can be found every year. Woodbine and 
wild ginger cover the broken rocks at the base of the ledge. 
Going on up the hill there are beds of feathery foam flower 
