u6 WILD FLOWERS OF SCOTLAND 



restless motions of the open sea-coast, and be 

 brought to anchor by the stolons of the lime. 



I have already spoken of the whins, which burn 

 with their yellow flames, through so many of the 

 earlier months. Some of them rise into bushes, 

 branching out above several feet of bare stem ; 

 while, on the ruder parts of the links, others are 

 contented to lie along the ground. Ought I to 

 speak of two species ? 



No whin grow r s on the coast-side of the dunes ; 

 nor on the dunes themselves, so long as they are 

 bare and exposed ; nor anywhere, on unanchored 

 sand. But just within the shelter they thrive 

 marvellously. So far from being starved and 

 dwarfish, they are beyond the ordinary height 

 and robustness. As in the case of the almost bare 

 rock, they feel along the surface for any soil there 

 may be. 



The unbroken sheet of daisies which puzzles the 

 golfer, does not spread so near the sea. It belongs 

 to the older part of the links, where the turf has 

 been changed more than once, The wild flowers 

 proper of this scene must be sought for on 

 the rougher belt between the daisies and the 

 sand-dunes, where there is less suspicion of 

 tampering. 



