The cold May seemed to detract little from the beauty and interest of the woodlands. The warblers, the humming bird, the tanager, the bob-o-link, the ovenbird, the vireos, the chat, the red start, the oriole, the dickcissel, the black-billed cuckoo, all greeted their friends as numerously as ever. So with the flowers: the columbine, the shooting star, the painted cup, the puccoon, the beautiful though inodorous large white trillium, the delicate little corydalis, the star grass and the lady's slipper, all came within a week of their average time in spite of the cold, and the showy orchis was only just over into June. May added fifty-four new species of flowers to the April list, according to the record of a single observer whose leisure is limited. Those who added the forty odd May arrivals in bird land to their April lists may have no such thrilling walks in June, but they may study their feathered friends of the summer, which is better, and if passion for new lists is not satiated, try the flowers instead of the birds. June should yield a list of a hundred twenty-five different species, not including the grasses, and a very diligent flower-lover will make it much longer. Transcriber's Note The following typographical errors were maintained in this version of this book. Page Error TN-1 21 anl should read and TN-2 23 live stock for livestock TN-3 31 "sunburst.' has the wrong type of close quote TN-4 47 diskcissel should read dickcissel Inconsistent hyphenation: bell-wort / bellwort blood-root / bloodroot blue-bird / blue bird fly-catchers / flycatchers music-full / musicful root-stock / rootstock whip-poor-will / whippoorwill wood-thrush / woodthrush End of Project Gutenberg's Some Spring Days in Iowa, by Frederick John Lazell