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Seaside Convolvulus ( Calystegia Soldanella). A very elegant 

 trailing convolvulus, with pale rosy flowers. 



Bluebell ( Campanula rotundifolia). The true " Bluebell of 

 Scotland," often miscalled the "harebell," which latter 

 name belongs rightfully to the sylvan hyacinth, Scilla 

 nutans ; the inheritance dating from the time of Shak- 

 spere, who never confuses the flowers of different seasons, 

 and associates the scilla with the primrose 



Thou shall not lack 



The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor 

 The azur'd harebell, like thy veins. 



Wild Parsnip ( ' Pastinaca sativa). Easily recognised by its 

 coarse and untidy habit, large leaves, and terminal 

 umbels of yellow flowers. 



Evening Primrose (CEnothera biennis). An American plant, 

 in reality, but which becoming accidentally dispersed, 

 through the medium of the abundant seeds, in waste and 

 little-travelled ground, has long since become perfectly 

 naturalized, and is to be met with more or less almost all 

 the way to Liverpool. 



Sea-side Catchfly (Silene maritima). A maritime form of the 

 common bladder-campion (Silene inflata) of inland 

 districts, told at once by its slender trailing stems, small 

 sea-green leaves growing in pairs, and very handsome 

 round snow-white flowers the size of a shilling. 



English Catchfly (Silene Anglica). 



Evening Star Catchfly (Silene noctiflora). Near Ainsdale. 



Golden Stone-crop (Sedum acre). Though for want of walls and 

 cliffs upon which it can take its favourite form of the 

 epaulette, this beautiful little plant cannot be expected 



