SOME MAY FLOWERS.

ARUM.

OXALIS.

FORGET-ME-NOT.

STITCHWORT.

SPEED WELL.

HEARTS-EASE.

STRAWBERRY BLOSSOM.

MALLOW.

BRYONY.

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CHAPTER V.

SOME FANCIES ABOUT PLANTS.

ENRY. Here we are, Grandmamma,

with something to puzzle you to-day! I don't believe even you will be able to tell us the parts of this curious flower. We found it in the hedge, just by the gate, and Nurse said she used to call it 'lords and ladies' when she was a little girl. What is it really? It is not at all a proper flower, is it?

GRANNY.-Don't you recollect, Harry, the large white flower we have in the drawingroom, which you call the 'Arum lily,' though it is not a lily at all? Think of its shape, and of the bright golden column which stands up in the middle of the creamy-white, vase-shaped