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All-seed (Polycarpon tetraphyttum) , of the Natural Order 

 Paronychiea; a species of Hare's-ear (Bupleurum aristatum) ; 

 Cornish Lovage (Physospermum CornvMense), and Acrid 

 Lobelia (Lobelia wrens), a most elegant plant, rather more 

 than a foot high ; the leaves, which are large and inclined 

 to egg-shaped at the bottom of the stem, gradually become 

 lance-shaped towards the top; the blue two-lipped flowers 

 are arranged at a little distance from each other at the 

 upper end of the stem, the corolla projecting far out of the 

 calyx. Another very beautiful plant is Erica ciliaris, which 

 grows to the size of a shrub ; the blossom is rather large, 

 but its chief beauty consists in the multiplicity of its 

 minute but symmetrical leaves ; they are egg-shaped, and 

 edged with a fringe of hairs so fine that they wo aid scarcely 

 be perceived till looked at close. A wild Sage (Salvia clan- 

 destina) stands next in the list of these rare plants, which 

 includes only two more, the Autumnal Squill (Scilla autum- 

 nails], which differs chiefly from the Yernal Squill in hav- 

 ing no bracts and in the flowers being rose-coloured instead 

 deep blue ; and last of all, though not least rare, the yellow 

 Crocus-like Trickonema columns, though, properly speaking, 

 it belongs to a diiferent division of the family of Irids. 

 It is the same plant under another name as Ixia Bulboco- 



