WILD FLOWEBS OF AUGUST. 



XVII. 



LOVE OF ADVENTURE INHERENT IN MAN HIS EQUAL 



DEVOTION TO THE LOVE OF NATURE PLEASURES OF 



BOTANICAL HUNTING, WITH AN EPISODICAL STORM AT 

 LAKE LLYNSAVADDON CHARACTERISTIC WATER-PLANTS 

 NOTICE OF THE WHITE WATER LILY, LOTUS, AND 

 VICTORIA REGIA CONTRASTED ASPECT OF THE HYDRO- 

 CHARIS. 



" Look on these flowers ! 



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They are from lone wild places, forest dingles, 

 Fresh banks of many a low and hidden stream ; 



Where the sweet star of eve looks down and mingles 

 Faint lustre with the ivater-lily's gleam." 



MRS. HEMANS. 



I remember hearing of a Phrenologist who unfolded 

 to a very intelligent friend of mine, the momentous 

 secret that he was fond of travelling ; and, when he 

 was informed in reply, that the fancied wanderer sel- 

 dom left home, he sagely remarked that he would do 

 so under other circumstances than those in which he 

 was placed at present. But the fact really is that the 

 love of enterprize and exploration is inherent in the 

 breast of mankind generally. This it is, and not 

 merely the abstract love of science, that has prompted 

 men to engage in the various expeditions of survey 

 and discovery that have been undertaken, with a con- 

 tempt of all danger. This reconciles the soldier and 

 the sailor to the perils of their respective professions ; 



