WILD FLOWEKS OF OCTOBEE. 



(CONTINUED.) 



CHAP. XXIV. 



EXCURSION TO THE BOTANIC GARDEN OF SNOWDONIA 

 PLANTS OP THE RAVINES AND ROCKS FEARFUL LEDGE 

 ABOVE LLYN IDWAL A CONTEMPLATIVE DAY ON THE 

 SEA SHORE THE ASPECT OF UPLAND HEATHS LATE IN 

 THE YEAR EYE-BRIGHT, JUNIPER, MOUNTAIN GROUND- 

 SEL, BETONY, &C. RELICS OF WILD LOVELINESS 

 AUTUMNAL MARITIME PLANTS SEA - SIDE SKETCH 

 SEARCH ON BREAN DOWN FOR THE WHITE MOUNTAIN 

 CISTUS. 



" I have known the herbs of the hills, 



I seized their fair heads on high, as they waved by their secret streams." 



Ossiari's Temora, Book viii. 



" Observe yon band pursue the sylvan stream : 

 Mounting among the cliffs, they pull the flower 

 Springing as soon as pulled, and mavelling, pry 

 Into its veins, and circulating blood, 

 And wondrous mimicry of higher life ; 

 Admire its colours, fragrance, gentle shape ; 

 And thence admire the God that made it so 

 So simple, complex, and so beautiful." POLLOK. 



As the " Botanic garden of Snowdonia" still remained 

 to be visited, I started for it the succeeding morning, 

 with my little Welchman, and a visitor at Dolbadran 

 Castle, who volunteered to aid the expedition. We 



