98 EVENING PRIMROSE. 



arc covered with grateful creatures, some 

 returning from the lighted petals, where 

 they have fed, or been refreshed, at the 

 vegetable fountains, to take their rest among 

 the leaves ; others hurrying up the stems ; 

 and others again assembled in the corollas.* 

 All, and each, are either thickly coated, or 

 else enwrapped in down or feathers, the 

 better to resist the heavy dews of night. 



The same extraordinary phenomenon has 

 likewise been observed in other phosphoric 

 plants, and in certain mosses that grow 

 witliin the moist and cavernous recesses of 

 Dartmoor ; in places where Druid steps 

 have trodden, and where our remotest an- 

 cestors found a home.f Did we know, con- 



* Stated on the authority of Dr. Jcniier and Mr. Pursli, 

 the latter referred to in " Withering's Arrangement of 

 British Plants," vol. ii. p. 473, edition of 1830. 



t This curious fact is noticed by the Rev. R. Park 

 Welland, and adverted to in "^ Witliering's Arrange- 

 ment," vol. ii. p, 473. 



