THE SEA LAVENDER IN HOLDERNESS. ~ 235 
tide mark at Aldborough, in August, 1900. This transporta- 
tion is no doubt a factor in its distribution and extinction. 
After the spring tides of September last, not a single panicle 
was to be seen amongst the plants in the Hedon Haven. 
Its scarcity is due, l think, to two causes: there is no 
extensive area about half-way between the highest and lowest 
tide marks, the mud covered at every tide grows nothing and 
the higher ground is too dry; again, Statice flourishes best 
in muddy sand, the Humber shore is too muddy and the outer 
shore is pure sand. 
The eastern shore of the Wash affords a striking parallel. 
The muddy sand of the salt marsh at Holme, where the water 
enters at all except the lowest neaps, is clothed with Statice 
lamontum, binervosa, and caspia: scattered plants of S. Zémonzum 
grow on the grassy flats at Heacham, which are rather lower 
than the corresponding areas in the Humber: but it does not 
grow on the intermediate sandy shore at Hunstanton, nor on 
the extensive mud flats from Heacham to Lynn, where the 
area occupied by Aster, Atriplex, etc., may be measured in 
square miles. 
COLONEL B. B. HAWORTH-BOOTH, D.L., a [et or 
or HuLLBaNK Hatt, Osit, JUNE 5th, 1901. 
A shimmer of green leaves beneath the sun, 
A low wind breathing on the perfumed grass, 
Where the brief shadows gently come and pass, 
As unto eventide the glad hours run. 
Short is the longest summer-day when done, 
And frail the richest blossoms we amass, 
Fading ere eventide when our 6 Alas!” 
Sighs o’er the solemn rest that we have won. 
We took it as if God, this earth’s sweet bloom ; 
His breath was in the tempest, in the sigh 
Of Zephyrs o’er the morning mead and sea ; 
And now, as quiet watchers by the tomb, 
We know the gracious Presence, brooding high, 
Transforms our earth and dust to His immensity. 
EpwWarRD LAMPLOUGH. 
Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists’ Club. 
