Hullo, little puss, what have you got there?"
Marjorie, who had run on in advance and was not by any means ignorant of
the flora of the neighbourhood, had secured three specimens, a late
Valerian, an early spotted Touch-me-not, and a little bunch of
Blue-eyed-grass. Coristine took them from her with thanks, told her
their names and stowed them away in his candle box. The zeal to discover
and add to the collection grew upon all the party, the Captain included.
Near the water, where the Valerian and the Touch-me-not grew, Marjorie
Carruthers found the Snake-head, with its large white flowers on a
spike. Another little Carruthers brought to the botanist the purple
Monkey flower, but the Captain excelled his youthful nephew by adding to
the collection the rarer and smaller yellow one. Then the lawyer himself
discovered another yellow flower, the Gratiola or Hedge Hyssop, at the
moment when Marjorie rejoiced in the modest little Speedwell. Once more,
the Captain distinguished himself by finding in the grass the yellow
Wood-Sorrel, with its Shamrock leaves, which, when Marjorie saw, she
seemed to recognize in part.
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