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XXI. 



BINDWEED. 



NOT the least beautiful among our native 

 wild flowers are many of those which grow, 

 too often unheeded, along the wayside of 

 every country road. The hedge-bordered 

 highway on which I am walking to-day, to 

 take my letters to the village post, is bor- 

 dered on either side with such a profusion 

 of colour as one may never see equalled 

 during many years' experience of tropical or 

 sub-tropical lands. Jamaica and Ceylon 

 could produce nothing so brilliant as this 

 tangled mass of gorse, and thistle, and St. 

 John's-wort, and centaury, intermingled with 

 the lithe and whitening sprays of half-opened 

 clematis. And here, on the very edge of 



