beauty, [Footnote: Claytonia.] a delicate little flower with pink striped
bells, and the everlasting flower, [Footnote: Graphalium.] and saxifrage,
and the white and dark red lily, that the Yankees call 'white and red
death.' [Footnote: Trillium, or Wake Robin.] These have three green
leaves about the middle of the stalk, and the flower is composed of three
pure white or deep red leaves--petals my father used to call them; for my
father, Lady Mary, was a botanist, and knew the names of all the flowers,
and I learned them from him.

"The most curious is the mocassin flower. The early one is bright golden
yellow, and has a bag or sack which is curiously spotted with ruby red,
and its petals are twisted like horns. There is a hard thick piece that
lies down just above the sack or mocassin part; and if you lift this up,
you see a pair of round dark spots like eyes, and the Indians say it is
like the face of a hound, with the nose and black eyes plain to be seen;
two of the shorter curled brown petals look like flapped ears, one on each
side of the face.

"There is a more beautiful sort, purple and white, which blooms in
August; the plant is taller, and bears large lovely flowers."

"And has it a funny face and ears too, nurse?"

"Yes, my dear, but the face is more like an ape's; it is even more
distinct than in the yellow mocassin. When my brother and I were children,
we used to fold back the petals and call them baby flowers; the sack, we
thought, looked like a baby's white frock."

Lady Mary was much amused at this notion.