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these may also be Pinguicula grandiflora, the finest of 

 the native Butterworts, that grows in the bogs of the 

 south-west of Ireland, and looks like handsome Violets 

 rising from the pale-green bog-moss. 



One spot of Sphagnum-haunted bog-land should 

 have some of the native marsh plants that are perfect 

 gems of beauty. The little Bog Pimpernel, whose 

 small pink flowers remind one of those of Linncea, the 

 more so that they are generally borne in pairs, though 

 of different habit, in that they stand up instead of 

 drooping. Then there will be the Ivy-leaved Bell- 

 flower, smallest of its kind, its flowers carried on 

 hair-like stalks, and its little leaves of tenderest tissue, 

 Ivy-like with pointed lobes. Then the small Cornish 

 Moneywort {Sibthorpia europcza), not hardy in the 

 north, with pretty tender pale-green leaves and 

 flowers scarcely noticeable ; and here may be grown 

 the two little native Bog Orchids, Malaxis and 

 Liparis. All these are such small things that they 

 might easily be overlooked unless one knew that in 

 such a special place they were to be found for a little 

 searching. 



At a place where the bank between wood and 

 marsh is cool and moist, yet not boggy, will be 

 Gaultheria procumbens, closely carpeting the ground 

 with its neat sheets of green lighted up by its bright 

 red berry, and above it and stretching in under the 

 Firs its larger relative, Gaultheria Shallon. On some 

 cool mossy bank there will be two charming little 



