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It has also been called Will (wild) Fire, and Tenny- 
son uses this name— 
“The wild Marsh Marigold shines like fire.” 
The Marsh Marigold is highly irritant and acrid, 
or poisonous. But the buds have been used in place 
of capers, being pickled in the same way. 
The petals boiled with alum yield a yellow dye. 
They have a tradition in Iceland that it serves when 
carried about as a talisman to prevent an angry 
word being spoken to a person. 
THE WATER LILY GROUP. 
The Water lilies are aquatic plants, and veritable 
nymphs of the pool, as the Latin name for the Order, 
Nympheacee, suggests. 
They grace every pool of any size, or river, with 
their floating tray-like leaves, fragrant white and 
yellow flowers, borne on the long rope-like stems 
which are embedded down below in the mud at the 
bottom of the dark pool whose face mirrors the 
floating flowers before us. 
These plants are all herbaceous. Two foreign 
plants are included in this order, one the Lotus lily, 
- which is held sacred in the East, because it gave 
birth to Brahma, and was said to have been the 
cradle of Buddha. 
It figures largely in art as a symbolic emblem. I 
have seen it represented upon the quaint vases of 
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