KAMBLES 

 SEAECH OF WILD FLOWERS, 



AND 



HOW TO DISTINGUISH THEM. 



INTBODUCTOEY. 



" Enshrined within the tiny flowers 



That grow beside the path of life 

 Are simples blest with healing powers, 

 And germs with sweetest odour rife. 

 But he alone that stooping low, 



Will stay with curious hand to cull, 

 Can all the many virtues know 

 That dignify the Beautiful." 



PNEUMA. 



1HE unusually mild winter of 185 had induced many families 

 to pass it at the sea-side, and the inhabitants of Clevedon, in 

 Somersetshire, numbered more than the regular residents. 

 Mrs. Bring, a widow lady, and her only daughter were occu- 

 pying a handsome suite of rooms in one of the houses on the 

 west of the town, and their Christmas had passed cheerily, 

 enlivened by the society of two cousins, Esther Claridge, the 

 eldest daughter of Mrs. Dring's brother, and Edward Leigh, 

 the son of her sister. 



