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The spreading circles broaden outwards, and make their little marsh, planted with water-grass and forget-me-nots and blue bog-bean, and in the spring with butterburs.

From The Naturalist on the Thames by Cornish, C. J. (Charles John)

By these, but on the lower ground almost level with the water, big forget-me-nots, butterburs, and wild snake's-head lilies should be set, and all the crimson and white varieties of garden daisy.

From The Naturalist on the Thames by Cornish, C. J. (Charles John)