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fortunate in her search, for the Rupturewort, to the locality 

 of which she was directed by the same writer. In the famous 

 excursion along the cliffs from Kynance to the Lizard Point 

 in which she found the Bloody Cranesbill, Common Dropwort, 

 English Scurvy-grass, and other treasures, they passed along 

 the cliff's at the foot of the Soap Rock a mass of fine soft stone 

 of dazzling whiteness, contrasting strangely with the rugged 

 serpentine cliffs so dark in their hue, which border the coast on 

 either side of it : growing amongst the debris of this Soap Rock 

 was a plot of the tiny prostrate Rupturewort. The flowers are 

 of the same colour as the rest of the plant, and have five petals, 

 five stamens, and one stigma. There are two kinds of Rupture- 

 wort, one smooth and the other hairy, and Sir J. E. Smith 

 considers them different species. Fanny's specimen is hairy 

 (Herniaria hirsutum) ; it is the more scarce of the two. 



The Smooth one (H. glabra), I have seen in the botanic 

 garden at Edinburgh. 



In a swampy meadow near the Loe Pool, Fanny found a 

 group of dainty plants : the Pale Butterwort, Ivy-leaved Bell- 

 flower, and "Whorled Knot-grass. This last is the only one of 

 them with which we have to do at present. It has a slender 

 stem three or four inches high, along which oval glaucous 

 leaves are planted in pairs at short intervals. A whorl of 

 pinkish flowers graces each pair of leaves nestling in the axils. 

 Each blossom has five coloured sepals, no corolla, five stamens, 

 and one stigma ; the stem is partly recumbent (Illecebrum 

 verticillatum). She failed in finding the Four-leaved All- 

 seed, the lower leaves of which grow in fours. It has five 

 petals and five sepals, three stamens and three stigmas. It 

 is a tiny plant, with a cluster of flowers in a form called a 

 panicle. 



One family is still wanting to complete the Knot-grass 

 tribe, and I am happy to have a specimen of one of its 

 members. 



The Annual Knawell (Scleranthus annuus), first met my eye 



