272 SYLVAN SKETCHES. 



The word Lotus is here translated water-lily, for it is 

 generally supposed to have been the plant now called 

 Nymphaea Lotus, a kind of white water-lily. There is 

 a genus now bearing the name of Lotus, which has no 

 connexion with either Lotus of the ancients ; it is called 

 in English the birdVfoot-trefoil. 



