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earliest spring wild flowers

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  • Title: earliest spring wild flowers
  • Date: Around 1881; 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown | Richard E. Labar
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.03419
  • Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Lauren Grewe Ty Alyea Nicole Gray Matt Cohen Ashlyn Stewart
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt, Unknown, and Richard E. Labar. "earliest spring wild flowers." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.03419.xml (TEI)

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Whitman's hand blue double overline and underline
Highlighting yellow background with top and bottom border
Paste-on gray box with black borders
Laid in white box with black borders
Erasure white text with dark gray background
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
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earliest spring wild flowers

bloodroot, arbutus, pepaticas, violets,—the g — h cultivated hyacinths, callas, azaleas, roses.
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FOR the benefit of those who are studying Botany, we publish through the kindness of Prof. Groff, the following list of spring flowers with their scientific names:

  • 1. Swamp Cabbage, Symplocarpus fœtidus.
  • 2. Water Carpet, Chrysoplenium Americanum.
  • 3. Candle Alder, Alnus serrulata.
  • 4. Wild Hazelnut, Corylus Americana.
  • 5. Filbert, Corylus Avellana.
  • 6. Yellow Jasmine, Jasminum fruticans.
  • 7. Dandelion, Taraxacum dens leonis.
  • 8. Chickweed, Stellaria Media.
  • 9. Red Maple, Acer rubrum.
  • 10. False Sycamore, Acer Pseudo-platanus.
  • 11. Liver-Leaf, Hepatica triloba.
  • 12. Rue Anemone, Thalictrum Anemenoides.
  • 13. Marsh Marigold, Caltha palustris.
  • 14. Bloodroot, Sanguinaria Canadenses.
  • 15. Whitlow Gross, Draba verna.
  • 16. Norway Maple, Acer platanoides.
  • 17. Sugar Maple, Acer Saccharinum.

All in the above list can be found within a few days. For localities, consult the Botanies.

Spring flowers '81 [begin surface 3] [begin surface 4]
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