WILD FLOWEKS OF MAT. 

 (CONTINUED.) 



CHAP. X. 



SCIENTIFIC AND POETICAL FLORAL INFLUENCIES. 

 SCENES OF PAST WANDERINGS. MAY FLOWERS ON THE 

 WELCH MOUNTAINS AND COTTESWOLD HILLS. DANDE- 

 LION AND OTHER FIELD FLOWERS. REMARKABLE 

 HAWTHORNS. HORSE-CHESNUT AND OTHER FOREST 

 TREES. 



" The meadow by the river seems a sea 

 Of liquid silver, with the cuckoo-flowers ; 

 And here and there where 'midst the smiling lea 

 Caltha in green and gold refulgent towers, 

 Islets of splendour shine, whose radiance pours 

 A glory o'er the scene ; a magic spell 

 Would tempt me to forget the passing hours, 

 And in the copse that overlooks the dell, 

 'Midst primroses and cowslips for a season dwell. 



MS. 



The botanist may look out upon nature with a 

 scientific or poetical eye he may either store his 

 herbarium with specimens classified according to the 

 most approved nomenclature, and form his catalogue 

 with a view to claim the notice of the initiated only ; 

 or with more enlarged views he may awaken general 

 attention, by connecting the objects of his study with 

 those allusions which can scarcely fail to penetrate to 

 the feelings even of the most unsusceptible. At all 



