The leaves are long and slender, with a long, tapering base. The flowere are large and very sliowj'. Corolla bright scarlet ; the tube slender ; segments of the lower lip oblonglanceolate ; filaments red; anthers blue ; stigma tlu-ee-lobed, and at length protruded. It grows readily when transplanted, even in dry soil, and is frequently seen in our gardens. A picture of this plant forms a portion of the design around the initial letter at the head of this chapter.

THE HUDSON.

shores are generally low, and extend back some distance in wet prairies, upon wliieli grow the soft maple, the aspen, alder, linden, and other deciduous trees, interspersed with the hemlock and pine. These fringe its borders, and standing in clumps upon the prairies, in the midst of rank grass, give them the appearance of beautiful deer parks ; and they are really so, for there herds of deer do pasture. We saw their fresh tracks all along the shores, but they are now so continually hunted, that they keep away from the waters whenever a strange sound falls upon their cars. In the deep wilderness through which this dark and rapid river flows, and ai-ound the neighbouring lakes, the stately moose yet lingers ;

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and upon St. Regis Lake, north of the Saranac group, two or three families of the beaver -- the most rare of all the tenants of these forests -- might then be found. The otter is somc^vhat abundant, but the panther has become almost extinct ; the wolf is seldom seen, except in winter ; and the black bear, quite abundant in the mountain ranges, was shy and invisible to the summer tourist.