THE FliKNY MOORLANDS. 



the somewhat rare Tunbridge Filmy Fern, Wilson's 

 Filmy Fern, and the delicate and beautiful Marsh 

 Buckler Fern. From this point a precipitous 

 ascent leads on to Lustleigh Cleave. We can 

 give no better description of this Cleave than by 

 comparing it to a huge Fern rockery, By some 

 singular agency, the hill-sides have been strewn 

 with blocks of granite, of all shapes and sizes. It 

 is really difficult to understand how this curious 

 phenomenon could have been produced, though 

 it would seem that volcanic action of some kind 

 must have had something to do with the original 

 formation of Lustleigh Cleave. But the present 

 effect is singularly beautiful. Here, as elsewhere, 

 the Ferns have taken possession of the ground, 

 and have given an indescribably graceful aspect 

 to the strewn boulders. Reaching the top of the 

 Cleave, after a toilsome ascent, we made for the 

 Logan, or Nutcracker Eock. Near this rock, 

 peering into the stony crevices, we made a pleas- 

 ing discovery. We found in one of the interstices, 

 between the gigantic masses of granite which 

 cover the hill-top, several specimens of the Lan- 

 ceolate Spleenwort. They were growing in one 



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