WILD PLOWEES OF AUGUST. 

 (CONTINUED.) 



CHAP. 



ADVANTAGES OF AN ACQUAINTANCE WITH BOTANY TO THE 

 TRAVELLER -- ITS ASPERITIES COMPARED WITH THE 

 ADORNED CLIFFS OF THE SEA-SHORE NOTICE OF THE 

 HEATH TRIBE IN THEIR MOUNTAIN HABITATS VARIOUS 

 BELL-FLOWERS WITH THEIR LOCALITIES - RUSHES - 

 FLOWERS OF DECLINING SUMMER SUNSET ON THE SKIR- 

 RID VAWR. 



" Lo far and wide the glorious heather blooms, 



Its regal mantle o'er the mountains spread j 

 Wooing the bee with honey-sweet perfumes, 



By many a viewless wild-flower richly shed ; 



Up-springing 'neath the glad exulting tread 

 Of eager climbers, light of heart and limb ; 



Or yielding, soft, a fresh elastic bed, 

 When evening shadows gather faint and dim, 

 And sun-forsaken crags grow old, and gaunt, and grim." 



Hon. Mrs. NORTON. 



In rny cursory reading, while "water-logged" at a 

 WATEKiJSTG-pZflce," within the ominous period assigned 

 to the influence of a celebrated watery saint, who has 

 of late years contributed very largely to the stock of 

 the tee-totallers, I met with the following quotation. 

 It is from a clever sketch of Germany and the Ger- 

 mans, (1836,) by some anonymous "Englishman," 

 who, amidst his various acquirements, unfortunately 

 omitted to obtain an acquaintance with botany ; and 



