On such a day,how well in this snow-season I remember it!I have been lured out by the hope of the Mayflower, the delicate epigae repens, miscalled the trailing arbutus.

Several plants have been identified as the shamrock; and in "Contributions towards a Cybele Hibernica," is the following extensive note:"Trifolium repens, Dutch clover, shamrock.

Crowfoot, creeping - - Ranunculus repens.