Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

 of an empty stream bed, whose mud-bottom is yet slimy.(HT)Amble down this bed. Come to colony of plants who hold aloft along spikes of lavender star-shaped flowers,Woods thick with a scrawny species of nigger-lice, whose spikes alike show the tiny pale lavender flowers & burr like seeds. Here we may observe both male & female species of Tall Meadow Rue. The male overwhelmingly out-numbered the female. Touch me nots abundant - the pale variety only, as becomes a shady woods, though