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getate. The bogs of Hampstead Heath and 

 Ken-wood are among its chosen haunts ; it 

 grows also at Soho, near Birmingham, and the 

 botanist, who in searching would look only 

 for such well-known plants as the little eye- 

 bright or sun-flower cistus, the wild thyme 

 or small cardamine, rejoices to recognize 

 the modest bog pimpernel lifting up its pale 

 pink flowers amid the heath. He, too, who 

 has left his far-off" mountains for the din and 

 stir of the great city, where no familiar face 

 is seen amid the moving myriads that crowd 

 her streets ; he whose fondest affections are 

 associated with distant scenes, feels in look- 

 ing at it, as many felt, when in India a 

 little daisy, of which the seeds or roots had 

 been accidentally conveyed from England, 

 sprung up in that stranger soil. Weary 

 men walked thither to look upon the flower 

 which they had loved in childhood ; splendid 

 carriages drove thither, that the riders in 



