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and is accustomed to see people.” The kind- 
hearted little flower did not mention the other 
cousin that stood by, for she would not expose to 
a stranger the envious heart of Erectum. 
A Convallaria Racemosa, who had by this time 
quite forgotten the Butter-cups, told Mary that if 
she would come in the fall of the year, she might 
take up one of her roots and see the resemblance 
to Solomon’s Seal which gave rise to one of her 
names. But Mary’s curiosity was not so strong as 
her love for this beautiful flower, which she knew 
was related to the Lily of the Valley, a favorite of 
her own as well as of the nightingale. She told 
her so ; and then another little cousin, encouraged 
by this, and whose name was Stellata, spoke up, 
and said she was named from the stars. 
Multiflora, who stood under the hedge, and was 
still smaller than Stellata, and gently clasped by 
