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FLOWER-LAND. 



CHAPTER XI. 



GENUS AND SPECIES. 



WE will begin to-day 

 by looking for some 

 of the butterfly plants. 

 We shall soon find the 

 little yellow Birds 

 Foot Trefoil, which, 

 I hope you now know 

 quite well. (Fig. 30). 

 Thereisgenerally some 

 of it by the roadside or 

 in a grass-field. Pick a 

 few of the flowers, and 

 also some of the red 

 or white clover : they 

 too are common. 

 Compare now the 

 bird's foot trefoil and 

 Fig. 37- The Daisy (Bellis perennis.) the clover. Although 



they are both butterfly plants, and so belong, 

 as you know, to one natural order, yet there is 



