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tic odour is so agreeable that it is a favourite in cottage 

 gardens, and still prized medicinally. Other "wildered 

 spots" bear the low crouching Swine's Cress (Corono- 

 pus JRueUii), the Creeping Tormentil (Tormentilla 

 reptans), with little yellow four-petalled flowers, the 

 common Shepherd's Purse, Small Cranesbill (Gera- 

 nium pusilluni) , and the Dwarf Mallow (Malva rotun- 

 difolia), hah in seed and half in flower. Sculking 

 about the ragged hedgerows on the verge of the com- 

 mons Black Horehound (JBallota nigra) still flourishes, 

 and tall masses of the Common Dyer's Eocket (Reseda, 

 Luteola) appear with their long wand-like flower-stalks 

 crowded with capsules ; here also several Hemp- 

 nettles (Galeopsis) show their purple flowers, and 

 Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), once prized for its 

 boasted powers, lifts high its crowded spikes and 

 cottony leaves. The Red Bartsia (B. odontites), gives 

 a dullish purple look to the same side of the waste. 

 Choaked in flags and sedges a slow half hidden brook 

 simmers along one side of the flat weedy expanse, 

 hosts of Bur-reeds (Sparganium ramosum) showing 

 their green prickly heads very conspicuously above 

 the water CLAEE says 



" Prickly burs that crowd the leaves of sedge, 

 Have claim'd my pleasing search for hours and hours." 



There too is the Amphibious Nasturtium (JV. amplii- 

 Uum), and mixed with the withered heads of Carices 

 and green-stalked Bulrushes, the Purple Loose-Strife 

 (Lythrwn salicaria), exhibits its foliage changed to 

 the brightest crimson. On the banks of the stream 

 towering over all, squadrons of prickly-headed Teazels 

 (Dipsacus sylvestris), make a formidable covert. The 

 lazy brook covered with Pondweeds, amidst which the 



