CONTENTS. XI 



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Heat on the Sap. — Spiral Wires. — Air Vessels. — 

 Difference of Scent and Colour observable in 

 Plants that gi-ow in the same Soil. — Common Yar- 

 row and Henbane afford remarkable instances, 

 with the Goat's-beard and Lettuce. — Difference of 

 Roots. — Their especial reference to the Habits of 

 Plants. — Remarkable Property in some Plants of 

 opening and closing at stated Hours, ascribed to 

 the Agency of the Spiral Fibres. — Their further 

 Use in the Vegetable Economy. — Purple Goat's- 

 beard noticed by Dellenius as growing in Cumber- 

 land : by Gerard in Lancashire. — Time Pieces of 

 Nature's making. — Useful to Labourers. — Poetry. 49 



SCARLET PIMPERNEL. 



Notice of the Three Species that form tliis small 

 Tribe. — Places of Growth, and singular Beauty. — 

 Bog Pimpernel. — Approaches nearer to London 

 than any other Plant. — Recollections of Home 

 and Kindred in Foreign Lands associated with 

 the Sight of Flowers. — Poetry. . . .65 



WOOD SORREL. 



Derivation of its Generic Name. — Vale of Dud- 

 combe. — Well-head, and Flowers. — Traditions 

 respecting it. — Tufts of Fern and Hart's-tongue 

 beside the Stream. — Golden Saxifrage and White 

 Sorrel. — Reflections suggested by the Remem- 



