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it in Cornwall. She was driving from Helston to the Lizard 

 Point with her mother, and, as they knew the tide was low, 

 they stopped at Kynance, sent the carnage on, and proceeded 

 on foot along the cliffs. Kynance Cove was looking extremely 

 lovely ; its distorted rocks of serpentine, deeply tinged with 

 crimson, maroon, and green, stood out boldly from the pearly 

 sands. The rich dark tints of these rocks she describes as 

 giving a very peculiar character to the landscape, while they 

 furnish a congenial habitat to many plants rare elsewhere. The 

 Bloody Cranesbill is one of these, and grows in luxuriance on 

 the cliffs for some distance beyond Kynance, and the English 

 Scurvy Grass grew in damp places in the same vicinity. 



The Least Cranesbill (G. pusillum), Fanny got near the 

 Land's End, at the edge of the road leading to the hotel. It 

 is like a miniature of the Dove's-foot Cranesbill. 



The Dove's-foot (G. molle), has round leaves, rather notched 

 than lobed and very downy, and small purple flowers. The 

 whole plant has a musky odour ; it is very common on the 

 margin of fields and lanes. 



The Herb Hobert (G. Hobertianum), is always welcome, \ 

 appearing, as it does, among our early spring flowers, and | 

 plentifully adorning the hedgebank with its rose-coloured j 

 flowers and crimson-tinted leaves during most part of the / 

 summer. Its strong aromatic perfume is generally considered / 

 an additional recommendation. $&**** - MMJL, (tyuM* 



The Long-stalked Cranesbill (G. columbmum), I found in 

 Wiltshire, in a lane between Longbridge Deverill and Horning- 

 sham ; it is taller, its lilac flowers are larger, and it is a more 

 slender plant than the rest. But its greatest peculiarity is an 

 elastic power in the seed-pod, which enables it to throw the 

 seed out with force. This elastic carpel contracts in dry 

 weather, and expands in wet ; the seed is very beautiful, as 

 well as very curious, each carpel bends outwards, and contracts 

 again above they thus form five open loops. I found both 

 flowers and fruit upon the plant in August. 



