WILD FLOWEES OP SEPTEMBEE. 







(CONTINUED.) 

 CHAP. XXI. 



FLOWERS OF THE WANING YEAR PLEASURES OF ASSOCI- 

 ATION PLANTS BY THE WIZARD DEE AND THE LAKE 

 OF EALA EXCURSION TO THE CLIFFS OF ARRAN BEN 

 LYN NOTICE OF THE AWLWORT AND HABITAT OF THE 

 WATER LOBELIA BOTANICAL LOOK-OUT ON THE BERWYN 

 MOUNTAINS ASPECT OF THE MOSSY TURF CLOTHED 

 WITH SQUARROSE RUSHES AND LYCOPODI^-REFLECTIONS 

 ENGENDERED VARIOUS FERNS AND ROCK PLANTS 

 AUTUMNAL FLOWERS OF DITCHES AND COMMONS DO- 

 MESTIC PLANTS, VERVAIN, WORMWOOD, &C. EVERLAST- 

 ING FLOWERS SPLENDOR OF THE AUTUMNAL GORSE 

 OCEAN SUNSET AT BARMOUTH. 



" It is a bright and balmy afternoon, 

 Approaching unto eventide ; and all 

 Is still except that streamlet's placid tune, 

 Or hum of bees, or lone wood-pigeon's call, 

 Buried amid embow'ring forest tall, 

 Which feathers, half way up, each hill's steep side : 

 Dost thou not feel such landscape's soothing thrall ; 

 And wish, if not within its bowers t'abide 

 At least to explore its h aunts, and know what j oys they hide ? " 



BERNARD BARTON. 



The year fast wanes away, and milder paler tints 

 diversify the floral prospect, save where the Hawthorn 

 berries blush in the hedges, or the orchards show the 

 ruddy tints of the ripened apples. The meadows 

 shine with pallid gold where the autumnal Dandelion 



