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plant is rare in the N. of England, but com- 

 mon at Orme*s-Head on the barest and most 

 precipitous rocks. It is to this plant that 

 Shakspeare alludes, in his description of Dover 

 cliff. 



" How fearful 



And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! 

 The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, 

 Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down 

 Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! 

 Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head." — Lear. ^ 



This dreadful trade at Llandudno has cost 



several lives.* 



Anethum fceniculum. Common fennel. Plen- 

 tiful at Llandudno. 



Sison amofmtm* Hedge honewort. Between 

 Gloddaeth and Marie. Mr, Wilson, 



Smymixxm olusatmm, Alexanders. Corn fields. 

 Mr. Wilson. 



Viburnum opulus. Guelder rose. Gloddaeth. 



Sambucus nigra. Common elder. Bodscallan. 



S. ebulus. Dwarf elder. Shores at Orme's-Head. 



* Phillips, in his History of Cultivated Vegetables, mistakes 

 the salicomia, or marsh sampire, for this plant ; which, he says, 

 erroneously, is found in abundance on the muddy shores of Sussex. 

 Salicornia, in every respect, differs from Crithmum ; in structure 

 and taste as well as in locality. The first is salt and sickly, and a 

 small plant of the First class. Crithmum is of the Fifth class, and 

 of a warm agreeable flavour and aromatic odour. Salicornia is 

 confined to muddy shores, Crithmum to dry lofty rocks. 



