By M. A. KoeiiUoe/i. 



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^lANT WATER-LILY. 



A scene on one of the South American rivers where the waters are still. The leaves are five or six feet across, with their turned up edges 

 showing the crimson of the underside. The flowers are over a foot across, and open in the evening, when they become intensely fragrant. 

 The underside of the leaf is divided into a number of small connpartments, suggestive of steel girder work, which gives both strength and 



buoyancy to it. 



