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is concerned. Further on, but still on the summit of the cliffs, the 

 wandering botanist is excited by the appeax'ance of several beds of 

 wild Asparagus {Asparagus officinalis) ; the stems all in a prostrate 

 state, and many of them intricately entwined together. The plant 

 was now just coming into flower. Beyond these Asparagus-beds, 

 among the broken cliffs, that, like a breached fortress, form a glacis 

 towards the sea immediately opposite to Margaret's Island, Inula 

 crithmoides grows sparingly ; and 1 only observed it in this spot. 

 Still following the indented coast-line towards a little bay, several 

 yawning " cauldrons," as they are locally called, present themselves, 

 in the shape of deep cavities, somewhat like lime-kilns, but on a larger 

 scale, where the ground has fallen in, and frequently communicating 

 with the sea, by an arched passage. These, being without any pro- 

 tection around them, should be noted, as they must be dangerous to 

 any stranger returning in the dusk, or disguised by a fog. The cliffs 

 rise to their loftiest point above the sandy bay of Lydstep, forming a 

 perpendicular mural wall, not easily explorable. The face of this 

 had upon it a dense, but dwarf, growth of privet and ivy, among 

 which I gathered several specimens of Orobanche Hederge. On the 

 hill close to Manorbier, the Ulex Europaeus forms such a close shell- 

 like covering to the high ground next the sea, leaving no margin 

 whatever for the foot, that it was next to impossible to penetrate it. 

 The fatigue, at any rate, in a hot sun was too great, and I gave it up. 

 Some plants that I remarked at other times, in the course of my walks, 

 may be mentioned, as below ; for there seems to me utility in making 

 records of vegetable appearances, at different times, as they come under 

 the botanical eye. 



Ranunculus parviflorus. Plentiful in arable fields on the cliffs 

 opposite Ramsay Island. 



MatUiiola incana. This was growing on a wall at Pater, near the 

 sea ; probably naturalized there : but, as it is very seldom seen on 

 walls, it may suggest whether or not to be found on rocks of the 

 craggy Pembroke coast. M. sinuata has been mentioned by the late 

 Mr. Adams as growing " near Pembroke." 



Cheiranihus Cheiri. Quite covering an isolated mass of rock on 

 the shore in front of the terrace at Tenby, and the adjacent rocks ; 

 doubtless naturalized, yet looking more in the character of a native 

 than I have anywhere seen it. 



Arabis hirsuta. Growing plentifully in the sand of the Burrows, 

 which it seemed to prefer to the rocks. 



Cochlearia officinalis, and vars. Very large and fine at Giltai- 



