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Craig Breidden, in Montgomeryshire, and such places 

 are always most productive in specimens of interest. 

 Among the maritime rocks in the vicinity of St. 

 David's, South Wales, several plants grow rarely met 

 with elsewhere in Britain, as the elegant Cyperus 

 longus, and Genista pilosa. The practical botanist, 

 then, should be prepared for many a long ramble, if 

 he would enjoy the pleasure of plucking the golden 

 apples of the Hesperian gardens for himself, but even 

 failing in the object of his quest, the many romantic 

 scenes placed before his view, are, in themselves a 

 sufficient reward. 



Several plants puzzle the botanist from their runa* 

 gate disposition always shifting their positions, and 

 hence never to be found precisely in their former 

 abodes. Such is the pretty little Deptford Pink 

 (Diantlms armeria), that coyly opens only one of its 

 speckled blossoms at a time, then closes it and unfolds 

 another, thus retaining her beauties as long as possi- 

 ble, and offering a lesson of economy. 



The Highland Cudweed (GnapJialium sylvaticum), 

 frequently flies off from the spot of its birth; I 

 gathered a specimen of it on the North Hill, Great 

 Malvern, in 1830, but for years could not again find 

 it there until 1841, when several hundreds again 

 occurred, but higher up the hill. Since that time I 

 have searched the spot in vain for the plant. Reseda 

 fruticulosa is a casual wanderer, very likely to lead 

 the botanist astray, if looked after in its place of 

 growth the following year. So I once gathered St. 

 Barnaby's Thistle (Centaurea solstitialis) , among the 

 sand hills on the shore at Barmouth, North "Wales 

 but though I have several times since been at the 



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