2. How does the hepatica prepare for the winter and store up energy for blossoming early in the spring?
3. How early do you find blossom buds down in the center of the plant? Did you ever look for these buds in the fall?
4. Do the flowers come out of the crown bud?
5. Are the leaves that come up late in the spring as fuzzy when they first appear as those that come up early?
6. Make out as complete a life-history of the hepatica as you can,—how it sows itself, where it grows, how long it lives, with what plant it keeps company.
LEAFLET XLI.
JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT.[55]
By ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK.
"Jack-in-the-Pulpit preaches to-day Under the green trees, just over the way. Squirrel and song sparrow high on their perch Hear the sweet lily bells ringing to church. Come, hear what his reverence rises to say, In his low, painted pulpit this calm Sabbath day, Fair is the canopy over him seen, Penciled by nature's hand, black, brown, and green."
J. G. Whittier.