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dance), Triglochin maritimum, and Plantago maritima. At the 

 Point, on a hedge-bank, grew the long straggling Vicia hirsuta, 

 which is pretty common in the vicinity, though perfectly new to 

 me. Rounding the Point, I suddenly came upon a fisherman's 

 hut, of modest pretensions as to architecture. An old woman 

 stood before it, anxiously gazing across the sands : she was ex- 

 pecting her son from the opposite shore, and feared the tide, 

 which here rolls in its wall of waters with fearful rapidity, might 

 surprise him. Soon after passing this hut a strange fantastic 

 outcropping of the mountain limestone broke upon my view, the 

 only limestone I saw in the neighbourhood. Here I observed 

 Asplenium maritimum, very stunted. On the following day I 

 collected AnuyulUs tenella near the shore at Silecroft, and Con- 

 volvulus Soldanella on the shore near Kirksanton, between which 

 and Holborn Hill Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum grows in great 

 profusion and luxuriance by the roadside. On September 10th 

 I visited a wood above Beck Farm, and there found the following : 

 Geranium molle, G. dissectum, G. columbinum, Hypericum hurtii- 

 fusum, all abundant ; also Gnaphalium sylvaticum? , G. uliginosum, 

 and Eupatorium cannabinum. I then returned through the vil- 

 lage, crossed the railway, and behind the artificial tide-bank dis- 

 covered a piece of spongy ground, which yielded my old friends 

 Ranunculus sceleratus and Sanwlus Valerandi ; also, Cochlearia 

 officinalis ?, a splendid ttift of Car ex arenaria, Triglochin palustre, 

 and many others of more frequent occurrence. Next day I paid 

 a visit to the small hamlet of Kirksanton, or " Chapel Sucken.'' 

 A chapel is supposed to have formerly stood where now is a large 

 duck-pond, bordered by fine plants of Artemisia vulgaris and A. 

 Absinthium. The latter (common Wormwood) is much sought 

 after by persons at a distance, who come here to gather it for 

 medicinal purposes. In the hedgerows below the hamlet I ga- 

 thered Vicia saliva, Lycopsis arvensis, and Potentilla reptans. 

 Flax is here grown to a certain extent, and the small farmers in 

 this part of the county are giving more and more attention to 

 its cultivation. The linseed, after being boiled or steeped in 

 boiling water, is given to the calves, which thrive well upon it. 



The potato-disease has been much less virulent here than in 

 most places. In one year, indeed, when this valuable esculent 

 was scarcely to be had for love or money, the Kirksantoners en- 

 joyed almost a monopoly in the market. The soil is generally 



