906 



22. Strawberry {Fragaria vesca) ripe. 



This spring, as contrasted with the last, has been rather a back- 

 ward one, the flowering of plants especially has been later ; the prim- 

 rose, it is true, was in fl. earlier, but tlie dog violet 25 days later, 

 honeysuckle nine days, wild guelder rose in full bloom fourteen days, 

 yellow rattle three days, moschatell two days later, dog rose in full 

 bloom on the 8th June, 1846, first in fl. 18th June, 1847. 



E. J. R. Hughes. 



St. Bees, Cumberland, 

 June 23, 1847. 



Observations on the Plants of the Land's End. 

 By the Rev. C. A. Johns, M.A., F.L.S. 



I HAVE been lodging for the last week in this the most southerly 

 parish of England, and have greatly enjoyed the privilege of wander- 

 ing at my leisure along the magnificent clifis of the Lizard, places to 

 which I have often paid hurried visits, but which I have never hither- 

 to had the satisfaction of exploring as naiTowly as I wished. I have 

 been not a little surprised to find how very few tourists resort hither, 

 even in the summer ; for lovers of the picturesque would here find the 

 grandest rock-scenery of this "rocky land of strangers," and subjects 

 for sketching innumerable ; while the geologist would not fail to be 

 interested in the treasures afforded by the serpentine district; and 

 the botanist would no where in England have within his reach so 

 many undeniable rarities. Lotus hispidus occurs on the cliffs be- 

 tween Penvoose Cove and the Lizard lights, near Kennuck Cove, 

 and elsewhere ; Littorella lacustris on Grade Downs ; Trifolium 

 Bocconi in a new station, a rocky mound on the right-hand side of 

 the path between Cadgwith flag-staff and Poltesko Cove ; Thalictrum 

 minus among bushes on the sand hills at Kennuck Cove ; and Asple- 

 nium lanceolatum with fronds eighteen inches long, in crevices of the 

 rocks at Hot Point. Asparagus officinalis is now in perfection in a 

 deep ravine between Cadgwith and the flag-staff", and in sufficient 

 quantities to supply all the botanists in Great Britain. My only diffi- 

 culty was to select specimens small enough to dry. I also found it 

 in profusion among the precipitous rocks under the Rill ; but this 

 station being more exposed to the sun than that at Cadgwith, the 

 flowers had withered, and I could only discover one specimen with 



