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VQfy edge of the pond, said she liked to be wherever 
there was water j and she did not mind if it was not 
very clean ; it was all the same to her. She was 
named the Amphibious Polygonum, because she 
could live in the water or out of it, if it only were 
pretty near, so that she could feel its moisture. 
The floating Polygonum spoke from the middle of 
the pond, and said she loved to be in the deepest 
waters ; for her part she did not like mud, and 
should not be content to live half in and half out of 
her beloved element, like that little dirty cousin of 
hers. 
The next lake Mary passed in her walk, was al¬ 
most hidden from view by the broad shining leaves 
of the beautiful Nymphaeas, reposing on the surface, 
and spreading their corollas to the sun, whose glit¬ 
tering beams were reflected from the snow-white 
petals upon the yellow anthers that stood clustered 
