CHAPTER X 
A RAMBLE IN MAY: THE EVENING AT HOME 
Now that we have washed and eaten, and feel 
“like giants refreshed,’ we can settle down to a 
little pleasant work and conversation. 
I have placed the Small Tortoiseshell larvee in 
the breeding-cage, given them plenty of fresh nettles 
to consume, and they are feeding as happily as can 
be. We must take care that they are supplied with 
fresh food every day. 
Before we do anything else, we must examine 
those remarkable specimens of Avens. Now that 
we come to examine them closely, what beautiful 
flowers they are! They look almost like Roses. 
The Water Avens bears drooping flowers ; its rela- 
tion, the Herb Bennet, holds its flowers erect. 
These specimens, which are certainly neither Water 
Avens nor Herb Bennet, hold their heads upright. 
Let us see what “Johns” says. On p. 79 he 
describes the features of the genus Geum : “ Calyx 
ten-cleft, in two rows, the outer division smaller ; 
petals, five ; styles finally becoming jointed, awns 
hooked at the extremity. Name from the Greek, 
geyo, ‘to taste.” Thus an orderly Geum ought 
to have a ten-cleft calyx in two rows and five petals. 
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