340 POPULAR GEOGRAPHY OF PLANTS. 



like tint. There are besides an Orchis (Orchis laxiflora) ; 

 a species of Garlic Small Round-headed Garlic (Allium 

 sphfzrocephalum) ; and two Eerns which have been recently 

 found there, Gymnogramma leptophylla and Ophioglossum 

 Lusitanicum. 



A list of plants is then given, which are natives both of 

 the Channel Islands and of Devonshire and Cornwall, but 

 which do not extend beyond that corner of England. The 

 plants included in this group are such as White Mountain 

 Bock-rose (Heliantkemum polifolium) , which has nothing at 

 all to do with Hoses, as its name might mislead us to suppose, 

 but is a shrub, with blossoms like those of the Gum Cistus 

 on a small scale (except that the beautiful liver-coloured 

 spot is wanting), and with a multiplicity of little hoary 

 leaves rolled up at both edges. The elegant Trench Tama- 

 risk (Tamarix Gallica) and a St. John's- wort (Hypericum 

 linearifolium) are peculiar to this part of England ; also a 

 yellow-blossomed Wood-Sorrel (Oxalis corniculata), with a 

 branching stem spreading upon the ground; a kind of 

 BirdVfoot Trefoil (Lotus hispidus) one of the Knot-grass 

 tribe, Sand Strapwort (Corrigiola littoralis), a little delicate- 

 looking plant spreading on the ground, with clusters of 

 minute blossoms at the end of the stalks; a plant called 



