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snow-white racemes of the Sagittaria adorned the 
brooks. The Arrow-head told Mary her bulbs 
were eaten by the Chinese, and considered very 
good food. Mary wondered whether the fish, called 
the pickerel, was acquainted with the flower of that 
name. She thought perhaps the fish liked to eat 
its leaves or roots. 
The pearly-headed Everlasting said she was in 
former times used for cotton, and that her flowers 
would not wither even after they had been gathered 
a long time. This reminded Mary of the Rose of 
Jericho that she saw in the museum, which was 
not dead, though it had been lying on the shelf a 
great many years, and looked quite withered, but 
whenever it was put into a tumbler of water, it 
moved and expanded as if still a living flower, 
though its petals were gone. 
She wondered what the life was that seemed to go 
