'Know the look o' their faces, Miss Esther.'
'The flowers are their faces,' said the little girl.
Christopher laughed a little. 'Then what are the leaves?' said he.
'I don't know. The whole of them together show the form of the plant.'
'Well, Miss Esther, wouldn't you know your father, the colonel, as far off as you could see him, just by his figger?'
'But I know papa so well.'
'Not better than I know the Leontodon. See, Miss Esther, look at these runcinate leaves.'
'Runcinate?'
'Toothed-pinnatifid. That's what it gets its name from; lion's tooth. Leontodon comes from two Greek words which mean a lion and a tooth. See—there ain't another leaf like that in the hull meadow.'
'There are a great many kinds of leaves!' said Esther musingly.