MIDDLE OF “MAY 45 
lily bears, but the protruding golden cups in 
July can admit of no mistake. These flowers 
—when first out and freshly picked—-have a 
distinct odour of fine Cognac. More rarely 
still, a few plants of the frogbit thrive, with 
its small oval leaves (see Kingfisher, Plate 
XXXII), that, starting in the early spring 
as pear-shaped buds, which dropped off from 
the parent plant, he dormant in the mud, 
and so quite safe from frost, till warmer 
days come round, and then expanding into 
leafy growth, are buoyed up by generating 
oxygen, and rise to float their one year’s 
life and reproduce their buds in turn. (This 
interesting mode of reproduction can well be 
watched in a good sized aquarium.) The 
brandy bottle’s painted leaves are lifted now 
and then by extra puffs of wind, looking as 
if some life were there, of fish or bird. And 
as we near the shore, dark green masses of 
the wild mint growing on the edge betray 
their presence by the hot and pungent 
odours that the sun draws out. Some rough- 
jagged light green leaves of gipsy wort, all 
