1863.] KEviEws. 475 



It is then covered with " divots/^ except a hole in one end^ to allow 

 the smoke to escape. The floor is "mother earth.'' It has seldom 

 any door. The shepherd hangs up his plaid during night against 

 the doorway. Part of the roof of the one we entered had fallen 

 in. By tlie time we reached it, we were wet, soaking wet^ and 

 stood in need of a little rest. But there was no landlord. Our 

 licarts fell, as we sat dripping with moisture. The corners of 

 the apartment were piled with the roots of trees that had been 

 gathered from the bog, and can you blame us if we soon had a 

 blazing fire? Looking more narrowly, we discovered a little box. 

 Curiosity was aroused. We were out on an " exploring expedi- 

 tion," and why not see everything ? It was opened, and proved to 

 be the commissariat ! A cooking utensil was lying before us. A 

 box of cofibe was looking up from the small chest, and seemed to 

 say, " You would be none the worse for a little." We fancied it 

 spoke thus. Remember, there was no landlord. We did not think 

 of Sheriff Gordon and " the Blues," but we thought of Rob Roy, 

 and in the twinkling of an eye we were deep in the mystery of 

 coffee-cooking. Remember, there was no landlord, and the Blues 

 were invisible. We sat and warmed ourselves, and regaled our- 

 selves with the " Good Samaritan's" coffee. 



(To de continued.) 



V 



The Chelmsford Chronicle. 



The following extracts from this paper, kindly sent by one of 

 our correspondents, will gratify all our metropolitan botanists. 

 A very laudatory review of Mr. Gibson's 'Flora of Essex' has 

 already appeared in the ' Phytologist,' and therefore it would be 

 superfluous to quote this paper wherein its merits are further re- 

 corded. 



The following notices about the wild flowers of Essex, and the 

 places where they are to be found, are well worth extraction : — 



" Biiplenrum falcaium, strictly an Essex species, is particLiIarly inter- 

 esting, as it is impossible to mistake as to the identity of the plant when 

 found, or to blunder in endeavouring to find it, for it grows on both sides 

 of the road for about a mile, at the distance of five or six miles from 



