198 ULAUCUS ; OR, 
not uncommon, and of such exceeding loveliness, 
that it is worth while to take a little trouble to 
get them. The one is Dianthus, which I have already 
mentioned ; the other Bellis, the sea-daisy, of which 
there is an excellent description and plates in Mr. 
Gosse’s “ Rambles in Devon,” pp. 24 to 32. 
It is common at Ilfracombe, and at Torquay; and 
indeed everywhere where there are cracks and small 
holes in limestone or slate rock. In these holes it 
fixes its base, and expands its delicate brown-grey 
star-like flowers on the surface: but it must be 
chipped out with hammer and chisel, at the expense 
of much dirt and patience; for the moment it is 
touched it contracts deep into the rock, and all 
that is left of the daisy flower, some two or three 
inches across, 1s a blue knot of half the size of a 
marble. But it will expand again, after a day 
or two of captivity, and will repay all the trouble 
which it has cost. Troglodytes may be found, as 
I have said already, in hundreds at Hastings, in 
similar situations to that of Bellis; its only token, 
when the tide is down, being a round dimple 
