Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 108
rsappear, giving out an odor along the bushylanes and margins of the woods that is to thenose like cool water to the hand. Why itshould bloom in the fall instead of in the springis a mystery. And it is probably because of 583 So it is, as taught from the text-books in theschools; but study it… … this very curious trait that its branches areused as divining-rods by certain credulous per-sons, to point out where springs of water andprecious metals are hidden. One of the most fugitive and uncertain of ourwild flowers, but a very delicate and beautiful one,is the climbing corydalis, or…
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