Wild flowers and where they grow . -bush; vel-vety seed-heads of the stag-horn sumach. In a bog away up on the hill were some cat-tails on stalksfour feet long; polypod ferns of shining green were in greatluxuriance in the woods; bleached ferns; sensitive ferns,turning all shades of brown, sea-green and purple, running i56 WILD FLOWERS. into each other ; gigantic cinnamon ferns, the Anaks of theirkind; and the superb Osmunda. with its pinnated leaves — that tall fern which Wordsworth so admired as So stately, of the queen Osmunda HAZEL. Another autumn haunt was a wood from which mu
Wild flowers and where they grow . -bush; vel-vety seed-heads of the stag-horn sumach. In a bog away up on the hill were some cat-tails on stalksfour feet long; polypod ferns of shining green were in greatluxuriance in the woods; bleached ferns; sensitive ferns,turning all shades of brown, sea-green and purple, running i56 WILD FLOWERS. into each other ; gigantic cinnamon ferns, the Anaks of theirkind; and the superb Osmunda. with its pinnated leaves — that tall fern which Wordsworth so admired as So stately, of the queen Osmunda HAZEL. Another autumn haunt was a wood from which much of- the underbrush had beenremoved. It was likebeing in Arcadia; oras if Arcadia mightbe where that tranquillandscape in the dis-tance could be seenthrough the vistas, withthe blue mountain peakfilling all the fartherhorizon. Through thisforest dim wound manyfootpaths, wanderingoff anywhere, and thenapparently ceasing. OF THE QUEEX OSMlXDA NAMED. They had been worn bythe hand-sled in winter and some sort of drag in summer, on. WITCH HAZEL. 157 which the man who had gathered up the fallen brancheshad conveyed his load away. Now nobody appeared totraverse them butourselves. In therewe seemed as muchaway from the worldas if we had beenon Selkirks village was justbelow, almost with-in speaking dis-tance ; yet all thesounds of wheels in
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