Wild flowers and where they grow . ^flea-bane. A little creeper by the wayside, which has sofine a stem and leaf, and tiny lavender-red cup, was thespurry sandwort. We had fondly believed in it as a pim-pernel. We had so declared it ; for did it not open atseven oclock in the morning, and close by half-past two ?And on cloudy days did it not stay shut? And if that didnot answer to the description of Cipoor mans weather-glass,then what did ? No doubt these details seem absurd, and quite too personal;but they were red-letter days to us, illuminated days onwhich they happened. Such was that on wh
Wild flowers and where they grow . ^flea-bane. A little creeper by the wayside, which has sofine a stem and leaf, and tiny lavender-red cup, was thespurry sandwort. We had fondly believed in it as a pim-pernel. We had so declared it ; for did it not open atseven oclock in the morning, and close by half-past two ?And on cloudy days did it not stay shut? And if that didnot answer to the description of Cipoor mans weather-glass,then what did ? No doubt these details seem absurd, and quite too personal;but they were red-letter days to us, illuminated days onwhich they happened. Such was that on which we brought. WHAT YE GOT NOW? THE DOCS-TOOTH VIOLET AND RED COLUMBINE. 73 home the golden Alexanders (what an imperial sound! —meadow-parsnips, if you wish for a more commonplace name),and knew that these corymbs of intensest yellow, sheddingpowder of gold over our hands, were really lawfully entitledto that exalted appellation. Such was that when we sawour first white saxifrage on the ledge; and when, after muchvain searching, but holding to our faith that they must besomewhere, if we only knew, we found the primrose-coloredviolets. THE DOGS-TOOTH VIOLET AND BED COLUMBINE. We went a long distance to see the dogs-tooth violets, undera blazing noon-day sun in June. They are due in May; butthese were when days are long and hot. We had had a largebunch sent to us — sixty by count — with word that we shouldfind them in such a place, that they shut up towards night,but about eleven in the forenoon would be wide open. Yes ; there they were : the whole lower portion of a bluff,sloping to the east,
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