154 Uriconium. 



"sylvan forget-me-not" is not the same plant as the 

 "poets' forget-me-not," also very common. The last 

 named always grows close to water, and seldom or 

 never in masses; it has larger corollas, of a much 

 richer and darker blue, and the little hairs that clothe 

 the surface of the calyx are pressed close, whereas in the 

 smaller and paler-flowered "sylvan," the hairs stand 

 erect, and are curved at the extremity. Forget-me-not 

 is sometimes confounded with the germander-speed- 

 well. A glance at the mode in which the flower-stalk 

 is rolled inwardly is enough to distinguish it, the flower- 

 branch of the speedwell being always perfectly straight. 

 In the speedwell, moreover, the leaves are disposed in 

 couples, and the blossom is unsymmetrical instead of 

 circular. 



The return from Combermere to Wrenbury may be 

 effected by a different though not a longer path, the 

 distance either way being about two miles and a half. 

 The walk is agreeably diversified ; in the hedgerows are 

 the flowery ringlets of the Tamus, with leaves that shine 

 as if oiled ; and the Peckforton hills cancel the feeling 

 of its being a flat country. Let us add, also, (though 

 the trip is one for a very long day, requiring perhaps 

 fourteen or fifteen hours,) that the line through Wren- 

 bury is the one to be taken for Uriconium, that once 

 famous city of the Romans, and which, though ruined 

 and buried for at least twelve hundred years, is still 

 fraught with interest. It lies about five miles from the 



