20 LUNDY ISLAND. 



lovely germander, familiar to every one as the blue- 

 eyed gem of the hedge-bank, and the spiked speed- 

 well, a smaller species and much more rare, and 

 rather to be looked for in chalky pastures than on the 

 swampy borders of a stream. That plant, sacred to 

 friendship, the true forget-me-not, was also abundant 

 here, together with a white variety of the same species 

 that I have not seen noticed. 



In another similar brook that breaks out from its 

 darkling bed beneath dwarf willows, the common 

 buttercup of our meadows was growing in company 

 with a much more uncommon species of the same 

 genus, the great spearwort ; the latter we found by 

 no means rare in various parts of the island. 



The dwarf-furze, a smaller kind than that of our 

 commons and downs, overruns a considerable portion 

 of the central part of the isle, mingling freely with 

 the fine and the cross-leaved heaths, and the ling or 

 true heather : this last was not indeed yet in blossom, 

 but the true heaths were in full flower. The white- 

 blossomed variety of the cross-leaved heath we found 

 K>t uncommon, readily distinguished from the ordi- 

 nary state of the plant, not more by the pure creamy- 

 white of its bloom, contrasting with the rosy purple 

 hue which is normal, than by a, pale yellow-green 

 characterising the foliage, by which patches could be 

 discriminated almost as far as they could be seen. 



How delightful it is, when tired with exercise, to 

 throw one's weary limbs upon the soft yet springy 



