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vulus (C. soldanelld), the Sea Spurge (Euphorbia 

 esula), all display their various flowers; and the 

 Eryngo or Sea Holly forms a beautiful object on the 

 sandy beach, with its prickly blue-veined leaves and 

 dense heads of blue flowers. Thus Creative Benefi- 

 cence adorns the most sterile spots, and there is 

 something in nature exciting and suggestive wherever 

 we turn our steps. 



In another quarter, the raving ocean has rolled a 

 barrier of pebbles, and having thus raised a bar, the 

 fresh waters from the inland hills are dammed up into 

 marshes and morasses. These have their peculiar 

 plants, and show the black heads of the ScJiaemts nigri- 

 cans, the silvery stems of the Rliynchospora alba, the 

 Sea Arrow-grass (TriglocJiin maritimwn), and the 

 pretty white flowers of the Brook-weed (Samolus 

 valerandi), to say nothing of a host of Carices and 

 Scirpi, all presenting dense masses of green of various 

 hues, diversified here and there with a single immense 

 flossy head of Cotton-grass. In the deep drains or 

 ditches round the morass the Utricularia minor just 

 shows its small golden flower, bright as a passing star 

 through gloomy clouds when stagnant vapours rest on 

 the sullen air. Such appears the scene at Goodick 

 Morass, near Fisguard, and many other such places on 

 the shores of AYales. 



But we are now at a rocky headland towering above 

 the surly main, whose breakers hollow its base into a 

 hundred grottoes, caverns, and gullies, whence a 

 hoarse murmur rises upon the ear, broken by the 

 shrieks of gulls and other birds, nestling within their 

 dark confines. Here the silvery flowers of the Sea 

 Charnomile (Antliemis maritima), decorate the rocks j 



