200 WILD TLOWEES OF 



the Lady's finger (Anthyllis vulneraria), as if wounded, 

 displays its yellow or faintly sanguine hues ; the Squi- 

 nancy-wort (Asperula cynanchica^ strews its pale 

 lilac beauties ; and on a tottering crag inaccessible to 

 its dominion, the Tree Mallow (Lavatera arbor ea,) 

 lifts its dark villous broad-lobed leaves and deep pur- 

 ple flowers, vainly tempting the eye of the too daring 

 Botanical Explorator. Several isolated and lofty 

 limestone crags on the coast of Pembrokeshire, called 

 the Stacks, are crested with this fine maritime plant, 

 and one in particular called the Elyange Stack, is 

 covered with it. The scenery at this point is of a 

 sublime character broken and precipitous rocks, a 

 stormy sea, deep sunken cauldrons, and vast flocks of 

 screaming birds, combine to impress the mind with 

 wonder and awe. 



But away from the margin of stormy ocean, we are 

 again upon the mountains gradually we recede, till 

 the yellow sands alone mark the line of the beach, 

 and not a murmur ascends among the rocks even to 

 the listening ear. All is hushed as by a spell ; the 

 beetle sweeps by without extracting a single modula- 

 tion from the unfelt air, and the sun blazes from a sky 

 of azure upon which no vestige of a cloud appears. 

 "We turn the angle of a lofty grey promontory, and 

 the sea is hidden altogether : we are now upon 



" The upland ferny braes remote from man ; " * 

 and here a tribe of plants merits our particular notice, 

 though undistinguished by any apparent flowers. 

 These are well known as the TEENS. 



To a common eye the frond of a Fern presents the 

 appearance of a leaf generally extremely cut and 



" GRAHAME. Birds of Scotland. 



