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Flowers and their Pedigrees. 



nearer to England than the Pyrenees. Not far from 

 Axminster in Devon, again, there is a warm sheltered 

 nook in which nestles the little village of Kilmington. 

 Well, Kilmington Common is a place famous to 



Fig. 14. — flowers of common Monksliood. 



botanists, because it is the one single station in 

 Britain for a small purplish lobelia, which ranges 

 elsewhere onlv from Andalusia to central France. 



