168 WILD FLOWEKS OF 



tipt butterflies love to rest; while the gravelly shallows 

 glitter with the silver flowers of the Water- Crowfoot 

 (Ranunculus aquatilis,) that spread their white petals 

 on the water in countless multitudes. By the sides 

 of roads the red flowers of the Hound' s-tongue (Cy- 

 noglossum officinale), begin to make a conspicuous 

 appearance, 



Now suppose we have wandered close to the crumb- 

 ling walls of some ivy-invested abbey there beauteous 

 amidst desolation and decay the Wall-flower (CJieiran- 

 thus cJieiri), spreads odours on the balmy wing of 

 morning, the yellow - flowered Barberry (Rerberis 

 vulgaris), appears on the wall, and the ivy-leaved 

 Snapdragon (Antirrhinum cytnbalaria) , droops her 

 purple blossoms in luxuriant profusion, while amidst 

 the rubbish of broken tombs and tracery, the great 

 Celandine (Chelidoniwn majus), shows her golden but 

 fugacious flowers, mostly in man's vicinity or where 

 he hath been. May " from her green lap throws" 

 many other beautiful and characteristic flowers to 

 those who look for them among these we may men- 

 tion, the Red-rattle (Pedicularissylvatica), conspicuous 

 in boggy places with its bright pink flowers rising 

 from amidst the green moss ; the broad-leaved Orchis 

 (0. latifolia), when luxuriant as it is in some of the 

 Welch upland bogs, truly regal in its purple insignia, 

 the lovely petal-fringed Water Buckbean (Menyanthes 

 trifoliata), tempting the spoiling hand, though mostly 

 safely out of reach in its splashy asylum, and the 

 EriopTwri, or Cotton-Grasses, which waving their 

 downy silvery tresses before the breeze like a cloud of 

 snow-flakes, present a charming spectacle to every 

 adventurer in the vicinity of mountainous scenery. 



