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Yellow Stonecrop,) with its succulent leaves and cyme of large and brilliant 

 flowers, was growing from between the stones of old walls. By this time 

 the shades of evening had closed around us, and we bent our steps homeward 

 after a pleasant day's excursion. 



Later in the month of July, I went with a non-botanical party to Gunnis- 

 lake, on the banks of the Tamar — that matchless river, whose beauties have 

 been so sweetly sung, and without "local prejudice" too, by our native poet, 

 Can-ington; but, as I had no opportunity to search for plants, it must not 

 be supposed that the few hereafter mentioned bear any proportion to the 

 number to be found in this favoured locality. Here are the famous Morwell 

 Rocks, where that flivorite and graceful Fern, the Asplenium lanceolatum, 

 and the rarer Jlypericum linariifoUum, delight the adventurous botanist. 



From the lioliday steamer which had borne us from Plymouth over the 

 tranquil waters of the Tamar, we landed a little below Calstock, whence a 

 winding path, which we followed, leads along the margin of the river to that 

 village. By the way I noticed, in addition to many plants already included 

 in these papers, Apium graveolens, (Wild Celery;) Senecio aquaticus, (Marsh 

 Ragwort;) S. Jacohcea, (Common Ragwort;) AchiUcea Millefolium, (Yarrow;) 

 Pyreihrum inodorum, (Corn Feverfew, or Scentless Mayweed;) Sonchus 

 oleraceus, (Sow Thistle;) Epilobium montanum, (Broad Smooth-leaved Willow- 

 herb;) E. parvijionim, (Small- flowered Hairy Willow-herb;) Galium Mollugo, 

 (Great Hedge Bed-straw;) G. Aparine, (Goose-grass, or Cleavers;) Teucriwn 

 Scorodonia, (Wood Germander, or Sage;) Erica cinerm, (Five-leaved Heath;) 

 Loniccra Pcrichjmetmm, (Honeysuckle, Woodbine.) 



"And honeysuckles full of clear bcc-wine." 



Keats. 

 The woodbine wild, 

 "That loves to hang on barren boughs remote 

 Her wreaths of flower}' pea-fume." 

 Mason. 



Crepis tccforum, (Smooth Hawk's-beard;) Acjrostis inthjarifi, (Fine Bent-grass;) 

 Hypericum perforatum, (Perforated St. John's Wort.) I could fain say a 

 few words about the beauties of this plant, did I not feel conscious that 

 this article is already too long. Rosa canina, (Dog Rose,) filling the air 

 with grateful odours. 



"And first of all tlie rose, because its breath 

 Is rich beyond the rest, and when it dies 

 It doth bequeath a (;harm to swt«ten death." 

 Bakky Corn wa 1,1,. 



Ruhus fruticosus, (Blackberry;) well known to every truant school-boy, and 

 relished far beyond the choicest dainties of the table. 



"Were reasons plenty as blackbemea, &c." 



Falstaff. 



Ballota nigra, (Horehound;) Lapsan a communis, (Nipplewort;) ami Senehiera 

 didyma, (Lesser Wart-cress.) 



