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to be seen at Southport in perfection ; the growth upon 

 the ground is free and cheerful, and the brilliancy of the 

 individual flowers is in no degree inferior. 



Knotted Spurrey (Spergula nodosd). Plentiful, and when the 

 sunshine opens the sensitive milk-white flowers, a very 

 pleasing little gem. 



Agrimony (Agrimonia Eupatoriuni). The yellow flowers, 

 scented like apricots, borne in a long and erect spire, 

 which never has an immediately adjacent neighbour. 



Sandhills Rose {Rosa spinosissima^ or pimpinellifolia). The 

 most thorny of its beautiful genus; the usual height 

 about twenty inches ; the large flowers creamy white. 



The Dewberry (Rubus ccesius). In many places among the 

 sandhills, especially where fenced as private property, 

 this very interesting species of bramble attains per- 

 fection. Trailing upon the ground, the long branches 

 reduce one's pace to the slowest. In late summer they 

 are loaded with the handsome fruit, at once dis- 

 tinguished from blackberries by the great size and 

 the fewness of the component drupeolre, which are 

 covered, moreover, with a delicate glaucous bloom, 

 instead of being jetty and shining. 



Wild Thyme (Thymus Serpylluni). Like the Golden Stone- 

 crop, this elegant little plant is unable to present the 

 most beautiful forms it is capable of taking for want of 

 broken rock. The hue and the odour, however, are 

 such as always near the sea. 



Yellow Bartsia (Bartsia viscosa). Occurs in damp localities 

 upon the inland side of the sandhills, commencing 

 with the neighbourhood of Birkdale. 



