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interstices of the rock the Navelwort (Cotyledon 

 umbilicus} finds an appropriate home, and fills the 

 crannies with its curious round fleshy leaves and pale 

 campanulate flowers. A host of Ferns and " Maiden 

 hairs," also show their beauteous fronds, and the 

 climbing Fumitory (Corydalis claviculatd) winds its 

 delicate tendrils around in all directions. Here the 

 blue-flowered Sheep's Scabious (Jasione montana), 

 spreads about, and many minute plants present them- 

 selves, more, indeed, than we shall now stop to 

 enumerate ; but the white clusters of the Hairy Eock 

 Cress (Arabis liirsuta^) are conspicuous, and the dizzy 

 summit of the precipice is crowned with the garland- 

 like white and dense umbels of the Service-tree (Pyrus 

 forminalis). 



Many such cliffs may be found, rugged and for- 

 tress-like, shadowing the reaches of sandy-bottomed 

 Severn, but still loftier, more rugged and time-toned, 

 beside 



" Sylvan Wye, that wanderer through the woods ; " 



and in my mind's eye the broken masses of millstone 

 grit on the northern flank of Symond's Tat,* forming 

 a magnificent debacle, yet rise before my view. 

 Frightful must the bare scene once have been ! but 

 now, romantic beauty has chased desolation away, and 



* This is a noble mass of mountain limestone clothed with wood, and 

 connected with the Coldwell rocks on the banks of the Wye below Good- 

 rich Castle. It commands splendid views of the river and adjacent 

 country. The Wye approaches to its eastern base, but unable to break 

 the barrier, makes a circuit of more than six miles ere it returns to bathe 

 its western side. Its eastern end is dangerously precipitous, and it is 

 crowned by scrubby masses of Yew, Whitebeam, Lime, Hawthorn, Hazle, 

 Beech, Oak, Dogwood, Maple, Spindle-tree, Crab, Wytch-Hazle, Holly, 

 &c. in fact, a natural forest. 



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