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creeping hawkweed, a less aspiring plant, 

 although it shrinks from the heights of lofty 

 mountains on which tempests beat, and loud 

 winds make their mournful music, often as- 

 pires to somewhat of an elevated station. It 

 has been seen equally on the sides of Fair- 

 field Mountain, near Rydall, in Westmore- 

 land ; as in watery places, beside Coxbench 

 Wood, in Derbyshire. The narrow-leaved, 

 the orange, and the slu'ubby, the rough- 

 bordered, and the wood, the shaggy, and 

 the glaucous, with all their numerous re- 

 latives of heath and field, have each their 

 assigned locality. They are rarely seen in 

 the same place ; or if they grow contiguous, 

 they do not blossom at the same season 

 of the year ; so beautiful and unbroken is 

 the order that ever}^vhere prevails. The 

 narrow-leaved, that lovely mountain plant 

 which tourists delight to gather on the 

 sunny flanks of Dalehead, not far from the 



