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another locality near Ky nance Cove, which we subsequently detected. 

 There, on the side of a ravine, quite out of sight of any land which 

 has been cultivated, it grows in the greatest luxuriance, forming a 

 large portion of the herbage. Years and years must have elapsed un- 

 der the most favourable circumstances to have allowed it to have 

 taken possession of such a residence, and to have ejected its previous 

 possessors, supposing that it had been cultivated within a moderate 

 distance of this locality. But the summit of the cliff appears never 

 to have been broken by the plough, and the turf is as compact and 

 solid as can be imagined, producing the ordinary plants of the dis- 

 trict. I also made inquiries respecting the cultivation of the Trifo- 

 lium incarnatura, and found that it was not known in the neighbour- 

 hood. 



These incidental, though I trust not irrelevant remarks on the two 

 Trifolia, have somewhat extended the original limits within which I 

 purposed confining the account of my Lizard w^anderings. I will 

 therefore more briefly record our further proceedings. 



We did not venture into the Asparagus station, partly I believe for 

 want of time, and partly on account of the numerous vipers which 

 domicile in the long grass where the plant grows. We consequently 

 retraced our steps to Cadgewith, and proceeded along the coast to 

 Landewednack, where we were engaged to dine with Mr. Robinson. 

 On our road we met with Vicia lutea, which Johns had found during 

 our excursion in 1838, and which was then not known to grow in the 

 south-western counties, and Herniaria glabra, ft. suhciliata. The 

 scenery along this part of the coast is most beautiful, withdrawing our 

 attention most repeatedly from the legitimate duties of the day. 



Having partaken of Mr. Robinson's hospitality, we again started 

 forth, directing our steps coastwise to that richest of spots, Kynance 

 Cove. Here the scenery was of a higher character than that which 

 we had witnessed in the morning, and we lingered ofttimes in our 

 course to gaze on the many beauties which presented themselves to our 

 notice. Still we bore in mind that our vasculums were to be filled, 

 and we accordingly proceeded to store away such rarities as Alsine 

 verna, AnthyllisVulneraria,/3. Dillenii, Allium Schcenoprasum, Genista 

 pilosa, Scilla verna, &c. It was between the Lizard Lights and Ky- 

 nance Cove that we came on the locality of Trifolium incarnatum, var. 

 Molinieri ? alluded to above, a distance of five miles along the coast, 

 and upwards of two in a straight line from the Cadgewith habitat. 



When we arrived at Kynance Cove, the shades of evening were be- 

 ginning to close around us, and we had yet to obtain other botanical 



