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Holy head Mountain, hi Anglesea ; Dianthus ccesius 

 on the Cheddar Cliffs, Trinia glctberrima on St. Yin- 

 cent's Rocks, and their vicinity, Seseli Libanotis chiefly 

 on the Gogmagog hills, Cambridgeshire, and Cornish 

 Bladderseed (Phytospermum Cornubiense), only in 

 bushy "fields about Bodmin. Other plants might be 

 mentioned having special limitations, or contracted 

 bounds, as the Tuberous Plume-thistle (Cnicus tube- 

 rosus), recorded as only growing in the Great Ridge 

 "Wood, on the Wiltshire Downs ; but since found in 

 another locality on the cliffs between St. Donat's and 

 Dunraven, Glamorganshire, by Mr. THOMAS WEST- 

 COMBE, of Worcester. 



There are several plants that bear the name of 

 " meteoric," so denominated by LIKCOETTS, as being 

 more subjected than others to the influences of the 

 weather and atmosphere, or, at all events, more sensi- 

 tive to these influences. The pretty Arenaria rulra, 

 that opens its purple petals wide before the mid-day 

 sun, closes them instantly as soon as plucked, or folds 

 them close should a storm obscure the welkin with 

 dark clouds. The Daisy "goes to bed," as it is said, 

 before the sun goes down, but the bright Yellow- wort 

 (Chlora pfirfoliatci), closes the flowers before 5 P.M., 

 and the yellow Goafs-beard (Tragopogon pratensis), 

 so common now in upland meadows, even before noon 

 hence its colloquial name, " Go-to-bed-at-noon."* 



* Modem botanists have made two if not three species of Tragopogon 

 (Goafs-beard) out of the original T. pratensis of LINN^US. T. minor, 

 of FRIES, is described as having its involucres twice as long as the corol- 

 las, and T. major, a larger plant, was considered as a " good species" by 

 the late Professor DON, though Mr. BABINGTON has reduced the latter to 

 a synonym of T. minor- If size only were to guide us, undoubtedly a 

 plant four or five feet high seems entitled to a major's commission, while 

 one of barely three or four inches in altitude can be nothing but a minor. 



