MUSK MALLOW 187 



that flower in July is the musk mallow. It was 

 quite common round the village, and perhaps the 

 finest plant I saw was in the churchyard, growing 

 luxuriantly by a humble grave near the little gate 

 that opens to the Lyth and Bourne. As it is known 



to few persons, there must almost every day have 

 been strangers and pilgrims in the churchyard who 

 looked with admiration on that conspicuous plant, 

 with its deep -cut, scented geranium - like, beautiful 

 leaves, tender grey-green in colour, and its profusion 

 of delicate, silky, rose-coloured flowers. Many would 



