tongue-confusing word with a terrible grimace.

'I'm not writing a botany,' retorted Margery; 'and I can never
remember that word, much less spell it. I don't see how it grows
under such an abominable Russian name. It's worse than
ichthyosaurus. Do you remember that funny nonsense verse? -


"I is for ichthyosaurus,
Who lived when the world was all porous;
But he fainted with shame
When he first heard his name,
And departed a long while before us."'


'The Spaniards are more poetic,' said Aunt Truth, 'for they call it
la copa de oro, the golden cup. Oh, see them yonder! It is like the
Field of the Cloth of Gold.'

The sight would have driven a royal florist mad with joy: a hillside
that was a swaying mass of radiant bloom, a joyous carnival of vivid
colour, in which the thousand golden goblets, turned upward to the
sun, were dancing, and glowing, and shaming out of countenance the
purple and blue and pink masses which surrounded them on every side.

'You know Professor Pinnie told us that every well-informed young
girl should know at least the flora of her own State,' said Jack,
after the excitement had subsided.

'Well, one thing is certain: Professor Pinnie never knew the STATE