Identifier: wildflowerswhere00harr (find matches)
Title: Wild flowers and where they grow
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Harris, Amanda Bartlett, 1824- Humphrey, Lizbeth Bullock, b. 1841
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: Boston : D. Lothrop and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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WILD PLACES. 155 elders and viburnums; pigeon-plums; the swinging, blue-green peas of the large Solomons seal; snowy white cohosh
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TIRED ALMOST TO DEATH on stems like red coral; burning cone of Jack-in-the-pulpit;fiery scarlet of the black alder; lucent crimson of the two-leaved Solomons seal; ruddy apples of the hobble-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 named.WITCH 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 thisf

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