SYLVAN SKETCHES. 



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

 generally supposed to have been the plant now called 

 Nymphgea Lotus, a kind of white water-hly. 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 bird^s-foot-trefoil. 



