THE 

 SEA-LAVENDEB. 



Statiee Limonium. Nat. Ord., 

 PlumbagmacecB. 



HILE the botanist and the lover 

 of plants who makes no pre- 

 tension to scientific study 

 alike delight to wander by 

 the hedgerows, to follow the 

 source of some of our winding 

 streams, to search amidst the 

 ripening grain in our corn- 

 fields, to peer in the nooks and 

 crannies of some old ruin or 

 of some weather-beaten cliff, 

 or to lose themselves amidst 

 the far-stretching shelter of 

 some noble forest, sure that in 

 all these varying circumstances 

 some interesting and beautiful 

 forms will reward their search, we can readily 

 imagine that the botanist alone would ordi- 

 narily turn his steps to the low-lying and dreary-looking 

 salt-marshes, or search the shingle along the sea-coast. 

 Yet these bleak and unpromising-looking spots have a 

 flora of their own : one by no means so extensive as that of 

 many of the localities we have above enumerated one that 

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