158 GLAUCUS ; OR, 
which Mr. Johns has so charmingly described in his 
“Week at the Lizard Point,’ yet an average cliff, 
with its carpeting of pink thrift and of bladder 
catchfly, and Lady’s finger, and elegant grasses, most 
of them peculiar to the sea marge, is often a very 
lovely flower-bed. 
Not merely interesting, too, but brilliant in their 
vegetation are sandhills ; and the seemingly desolate 
dykes and banks of salt marshes will yield many a 
curious plant, which you may neglect if you will: 
but lay to your account the having to repent your 
neglect hereafter, when, finding out too late what 
a pleasant study botany is, you search in vain for 
curious forms over which you trod every “day in 
crossing flats which seemed to you utterly ugly and 
uninteresting, but which the good God was watching 
as carefully as He did the pleasant hills inland: 
perhaps even more carefully ; for the uplands He has 
completed, and handed over to man, that he may 
dress and keep them: but the tide-flats below are 
still unfinished, dry land in the process of creation, 
to which every tide is adding the elements of fertility, 
