Botanical name , Ranunculus bulbosus . '' `` Jerusalem ! what a flower ! Pistols and crows ' feet , and Polly put the kettles on , and Angy sperms and all the rest of 'em ! If that 's your botany , I wo n't take any more , thank you , '' said Ben , as he paused as hot and red as if he had been running a race . `` Yes , you Will ; you 'll learn that all by heart , and then I shall give you a dandelion to do . You 'll like that , because it means dent de lion , or lion 's tooth ; and I 'll show them to you through my glass . You 've no idea how interesting it is , and what heaps of pretty things you 'll see , '' answered Thorny , who had already discovered how charming the study was , and had found great satisfaction in it , since he had been forbidden more active pleasures . `` What 's the good of it , anyway ? '' asked Ben , who would rather have been set to mowing the big field than to the task before him . `` It tells all about it in my book here , -- ` Gray 's Botany for Young People . ' But I can tell you what use it is to us , '' continued Thorny , crossing his legs in the air and preparing to argue the matter , comfortably lying flat on his back . `` We are a Scientific Exploration Society , and we must keep an account of all the plants , animals , minerals , and so on , as we come across them . Then , suppose we get lost , and have to hunt for food , how are we to know what is safe and what is n't ? Come , now , do you know the difference between a toadstool and a mushroom ? '' `` No , I do n't . '' `` Then I 'll teach you some day . There is sweet flag and poisonous flag , and all sorts of berries and things ; and you 'd better look out when you are in the woods , or you 'll touch ivy and dogwood , and have a horrid time , if you do n't know your botany . '' `` Thorny learned much of his by sad experience ; and you will be wise to take his advice , '' said Miss Celia , recalling her brother 's various mishaps before the new fancy came on . `` Did n't I have a time of it , though , when I had to go round for a week with plantain leaves and cream stuck all over my face !
Just picked some pretty red dogwood , XXXXX ; and then I was a regular guy , with a face like a lobster , and my eyes swelled out of sight .
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