MOUSE-EAR HAWKWEED. J25 



ley Castle, while the Lawsoni, or glaucous 

 hairy hawkweed, with its fringed leaves 

 and large and handsome lemon-coloured 

 flowers, still grows upon the rocks beside 

 the rivulet between Shap, and Anna-well, 

 in Westmoreland. They grew there, at least 

 one hundred years since, when my ancestor 

 gathered their bright flowers from off the 

 margin's brink, and heard the pleasant mur- 

 mur of the streamlet, which flows, as then 

 it flowed, reflecting and partaking the love- 

 liness of all around. Thomas Lawson has 

 long passed from among the li%ang, but 

 tufts of the small flower that bears his name 

 are growing still in the same sequestered 

 spot. It may be that on such a spot, so 

 lone and rarely visited, some wanderer might 

 thus apostrophise the simple hawkweed : 



