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One bright lad from town informed me, with evident pride of geography, that "Some of this goes to London, England." Nearly everywhere in our woods the beautiful ruddy-bronze galax is abundant. Along the water-courses, leucothoe, which similarly turns bronze in autumn, and lasts throughout the winter, is so prolific as to be a nuisance to travelers, being hard to push through.
On Venus, daughter of the seas, She calls the tempest to appease To each wild-shrieking wind Along the ocean-desert borne, She vows a steer with golden horn Vain vow relentless wind! On every goddess of the deep, On all the gods in heaven that be, She calls to soothe in calm, awhile The tempest-laden sea! "Hearken the anguish of my cries! From thy green halls, arise arise, Leucothoe the divine!
A bull or boar is not to be mentioned as such in mixed company, but male-brute and male-hog are used as euphemisms. A female shoat is called a gilt. In the Smokies a toad is called a frog or a toad-frog, and a toadstool is a frog-stool. What the mountaineers call hemlock is the shrub leucothoe.
A. polifolia major and A. polifolia angustifolia, both well worthy of culture for their neat habit and pretty flowers. See CASSANDRA, CASSIOPE, LEUCOTHOE, OXYDENDRUM, PIERIS, and ZENOBIA. Manchuria, 1866. There is not much beauty about this Chinese tree, for it is but a big spiny stake, with no branches, and a tuft of palm-like foliage at the top.
She looked with wonder as at evening he guided his steeds downward to their many-colored pastures under the western sky, where they fed all night on ambrosia. Apollo saw not Clytie. He had no thought for her, but he shed his brightest beams upon her sister the white Nymph Leucothoe. And when Clytie perceived this she was filled with envy and grief.
Two of the fairest bore the names of nymphs. One was called after Leucothoë, "the white goddess," and its curved racemes of tiny white bells hanging over the water were worthy emblems of that pure queen who leaped into the sea with her babe in her arms to escape from the frenzy of Athamas.
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