THE YELLOW HOBNED- 

 POPPY. 



Glaucium luteum. Xat. Ord., Papaveracece. 



CARCELY any spot, however 

 unpromising it may appear, but 

 furnishes some point of interest 

 to the lover of plants. The surf- 

 beaten rock is fringed with sea- 

 weeds of beautiful form and colour; 

 the deepest recesses of the forest 

 are tapestried with the over- 

 banging fronds of graceful ferns, 

 and studded with fungoid growths 

 of the quaintest forms and richest 

 ^colouring that flourish in the congenial 

 damp and gloom. The bleak moorland, 

 again, swept by every blast, is knee-deep in 

 purple heather; and the bare reaches of 

 sand-hill or pebbly beach that fringe our 

 coast are the chosen home of some few plants that 

 thrive where the fierce winds of ocean and the general 

 sterility seem to forbid all hope of finding any floral life, 

 or anything higher in the scale of vegetable forms than 

 some perishing sea-weed torn from its rocky resting- 

 place beneath the waters, and cast ashore to die by the 

 rolling waves, that had heretofore rocked it in their 

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