38 VOICES FttOM THE WOODLANDS. 



fronts of high and beetling crags, far above the reach of 

 even adventurous school-boys, who long to rob the nest of 

 the sand-marten, often our sole companion. Those birds 

 go forth in quest of food, but we must remain stationary. 

 Yet the elements befriend us dews and summer showers, 

 winds and sunbeams ; and we have within us a wondrous, 

 yet beautiful machinery, by means of which we derive 

 benefit from each. "When the sunbeams visit us, we obtain 

 greenness for our leaves ; when the rain, such moisture as 

 we need ; when the wind, whether a gale or zephyrs, that 

 degree of exercise which all plants require in order that the 

 sap may freely circulate. 



Those who visit the beautiful solitudes of Dovedale or 

 Cheddar, or linger beside a rock on the road between 

 Bangor and Carnarvon, may see us in all our pristine 

 grace. Associated, too, with many a site of historic in- 

 terest, we are often gathered from the walls of Ragland 

 Castle and Tintern Abbey, and preserved as memorial 

 plants. Young botanists will journey far to pluck us from 



