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The article discusses the story of the landscape painting of Andrea Locatelli about a nymph plucking a branch from a bleeding tree. It is noted that Dryope, daughter of Eurytus, King of Oechalia, goes to the lake with her sister and son to pick flowers to be offered to the nymphs. She plucks a branch to be given to her baby, however, the branch bleeds and transformed her into a tree. The event is her punishment for hurting nymph Lotis who transformed into a tree to caught her attention.. She requested her husband and sister to take are her son and be told of her fate.

The article presents a literary piece about Rhœcus. One day as Rhœcus was walking through a forest, he saw an old oak tree which is about to fall. He found himself a prop and placed it under the tree. As he turned away, he heard a low, sweet voice calling his name. There in the shadow of the tree he saw a beautiful maiden. She was the Dryad of the tree who could live only as the tree lived. She told him that he had saved her life and offered him to tell her what he most wished for. Rhœcus told her to be her friend. The Dryard told her to come back at sunset. But Rhœcus forgot about it, so she sent him a bee. Rhœcus, not knowing that the bee was the Drayard's messenger, struck the bee. The Dryard did not let him see her anymore because he was unkind.