122 MOUSE-EAR HAWK WEED. 



The common hawkweed has many kindred. 

 Some grow on mountain tops ; others in 

 quiet valleys at their base ; some hide them- 

 selves among long grass : others, again, 

 love the margin of clear streams. The Al- 

 pine hawkweed will only thrive in moist 

 ffround on the sides of mountains, where 

 streamlets gush forth, and fall with a plea- 

 sant murmur into the vale below ; or else 

 where springs abound, and spread themselves 

 among the herbage, where the foot of the 

 passer by is made wet when he sets it down : 

 although from the dense growth of the short 

 grass, and upland plants, he may not discern 

 the boggy nature of the soil. This species of 

 hawkweed grows, therefore, on the mountain 

 of Ben-na-Caillich, in the Isle of Skye, and 

 on Rhiwr Glyder, about one hundred yards 

 above the Lake of Llyn y Cwm ; those cloud- 

 capt mountains, down the sides of which 

 streamlets ooze forth continuallv. The 



