The chambre charged was with wyches
Full of egges, butter, and chese.[[4]]
Note.—The flowers of the American Woodbine and of the Fly Honeysuckle (p. [228]), and of the Golden Corydalis (p. [192]) are also yellow.
III
PINK
Trailing Arbutus. Mayflower. Ground Laurel.
Epigæa repens. Heath Family.
Stem.—With rusty hairs, prostrate or trailing. Leaves.—Rounded, heart-shaped at base, evergreen. Flowers.—Pink, clustered, fragrant. Calyx.—Of five sepals. Corolla.—Five-lobed, salver-shaped, with a slender tube which is hairy within. Stamens.—Ten. Pistil.—One, with a five-lobed stigma.
Pink, small, and punctual,
Aromatic, low,
describes, but does scant justice to the trailing arbutus, whose waxy blossoms and delicious breath are among the earliest prophecies of perfume-laden summer. We look for these flowers in April—not beneath the snow—where tradition rashly locates them—but under the dead brown leaves of last year; and especially among the pines and in light sandy soil. Appearing as they do when we are eager for some tangible assurance that
—the Spring comes slowly up this way,