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sees it and guesses what is to follow, and strapping his vasculnra 

 over his shoulder^ and with staff in hand, he bids adieu to Mach- 

 rihanish bay, but not without feeling with Byron that — 



" There is a pleasm-e in the pathless woods, 

 Tliere is a rapture on the lonely shore, 

 There is society where none intrudes 

 By the deep sea, and music ui its roar." 



Should time and weather permit, if the rambler steps off the 

 highway some two hundred yards at the road leading towards 

 Chiskom House, and following the course of the lead supplying 

 the dye-works with water, he will meet with some Potamoge- 

 tons, Ranunculus aquatilis abundantly, with other pretty aquatic 

 plants. But I must for the present refrain, until I have an op- 

 portunity of directing my botanical friends to the fisrny recesses 

 of Jirfiryn's Glen ; its dusky banks even now glowing in golden 

 spots in the distance by the first blossoms of the Whin [UIcx 

 europceus), as Wilson says : — 



" A glimmering glow, like the breast of the deep, 

 When the billows scarce heave in the cahnncss of morn." 



Yes ! cold, cloudy, and bleak as the day has pended over our 

 Botanical Wanderings, that same golden-flowered shrub meet- 

 ing us at almost every step does even more than this : it tells 

 us that — 



" The finger of God hath touched the earth, 

 And it starts from slumber in smiluig mirth." 



A COMPARATIVE LIST OF BRITISH PLANTS. 



Shotchiff the different Names and Species adopted in the four best-hiotcn 

 English Works. 



The order here followed is that of Babington's ' ManuaV fed. 4c,) from v)Jnch the 

 names are in the first instance taken, omitting the species enclosed in brackets. 



BABINGTON. LOISD. CAT. HOOKER & AKNOTT. BENTHAM. 



Hieracitim boreaJe. H. boreale. H. boreale. H. sabaudum. 



Lobelia Dortuianna. L. Dortmauna. L. Dortmanna. L. Dortnianui. 



Lobelia urens. L. urens. L. urens. L. urens. 



Jasione moutana. J. montana. J. inontana. J. montana. 



PLyteuuia orbiculare. P. orbiculare. P. orbiculare. P. orbiculare. 



