“Oh, no,” Jack answered her. “She’s all dressed up in her Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes. She just borrowed that ‘queen’s lace’ gown. _Queen’s_ lace belongs to Wild Carrot, you know, and _Wild Carrot_ belongs to the _Parsley_ family. Run, Bet, and take off your party clothes. Dress in your own clothes; then they’ll recognize you.” Bet bounced away, laughing, and returned almost immediately in her every-day dress of—you know, calico-and-gingham-like petals. “Now we know you, Miss Bet,” cried Mary Frances; “but even your every-day dress is light pink! Are you sure all your family doesn’t wear pink all the time?” “Oh, no,” answered Bouncing Bet, “you’ll soon see that that is not the case when I mention my cultivated cousin, _Carnation_; and another cousin, _Sweet William_.” “And you’ll be glad to know also,” laughed Jack, “that among her relatives is _Dusty Miller_.” “Now, Jack,” laughed Bet, “that’s an old joke of yours! Please go on and tell something about some other members of your own family. CHAPTER XLII WATER BABIES JACK cleared his throat and began: “Well, I don’t want to seem to be too proud or conceited, but to me it is quite a pleasant thing to think that the roots of Jack-in-the-Pulpit, or _Indian Turnip_, which is my other name, have been used as a medicine many a time; and that the roots of my cousin _Calamus_, or _Sweet Flag_, are valuable as a tonic. Some of the _Arum_ family like dry soil and some like damp, marshy places. I do not like very dry places myself, and Cousin Calamus Sweet Flag likes his feet wet all the time.” “Isn’t it wonderful,” Mary Frances leaned forward in her interest. “Isn’t it wonderful, how plants growing side by side are so different?” “They eat the same things, yet are so different,” smiled Bouncing Bet. “For instance, isn’t it surprising that an onion and a lily may grow side by side? By the way, the _Onion_ and _Lily-of-the-Valley_ and _Tiger Lily_ and _Day Lily_, and _Hyacinth_, and _Dog-toothed-Violet_, and _Solomon’s Seal_, and, yes, _Asparagus_, all belong to the same family.” “Oh,” murmured the girls, “to think that the onion and the lovely Lily-of-the-Valley are cousins and belong to the same family!” “Yes, and Onion is cousin of _Easter Lily_, and _Tulip_ too,” Bet added. “What about Water Lilies?” asked one of the girls. “Now,” answered Bouncing Bet, “you’ve mentioned another member of the same family as the onion, for by this time, no doubt, you have guessed that I am naming members of the _Lily_ family. _Water Lily_ is one of their greatest beauties. How she ever manages to be so fragrant, so lovely, living in mire and slime, only her Maker knows. She is our dearest Water Baby.” “Oh, please tell us of more Water Babies,” begged the girls. “There’s a whole family of big water babies, that you know well,” Jack broke in. “That is the _Cattail_ family.” “How interesting!” cried Mary Frances. “I thought cats didn’t like water.”