1 68 WILD FLOWERS OF SCOTLAND 



Lowlander or foreigner who affects the rose, the 

 purple, or the pink. 



Towards their summits the highest hills have a 

 barer look. The heather seems to be thinning out, 

 as if it were approaching its limit in that direction. 

 Into this seeming bare region I shall ascend to- 

 morrow. 



From my feet, and also down the opposite slope, 

 the heather runs away to meet below, or only to 

 be divided by the breadth of the stream. There 

 is no appearance of exhaustion, no sign of reaching 

 any limit that way. 



On seaside moor, protected only by the sand- 

 dunes from the invasion of the waves, I have 

 found all three round about me, as I do 

 here. Moorland stretches on the sheltered 

 inlands, very little above sea-level, yield heather 

 which seems very vigorous and very much at 

 home. 



However low down I am, there I find myself 

 with the heather ; whereas, if I ascend, I increas- 

 ingly leave the heather behind. Not all three at 

 once, but one after the other. 



The purple flush does not reach to the top of the 

 heather region. It ranges only to some fifteen 

 hundred feet high. By looking keenly, I can just 



