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the Camberwell beauty or the Bath white of the 

 entomologist, are so very local as to bear assigning 

 to a special district. In many cases the earlier 

 botanists or entomologists bestowed the name from 

 the place where the species first appeared, but the 

 lapse of time soon renders such a limitation of area 

 in most cases ludicrously inappropriate, though the 

 name often gains a certain historic interest thereby. 

 The case of the Cheddar pink does not come within 

 this criticism : the name is absolutely beyond cavil. 



On visiting Cheddar one is waylaid by importu- 

 nate folk desiring to sell to the visitor roots of this 

 pink, and the thought will no doubt cross the 

 reader's mind that such a proceeding must neces- 

 sarily end in the total destruction of the plant ; but 

 a contemplation of these grand cliffs, in many parts 

 entirely inaccessible, brings comfort on that score. 

 The extensive sale is nevertheless greatly to be 

 regretted, and we may say, in self-defence, that our 

 plants did not come from Cheddar at all. Such 

 plants, bought often by cheap-trippers and one-day 

 excursionists, as something to take from Cheddar, 

 in the same way that, for some occult reason, they 

 drag home mugs from Margate, are almost certainly 

 doomed to perish. I 



1 There is evidently room there, and by no means there 

 alone, for a local branch of Raskin's Society of St. George, 

 one of the rules of this Guild being " I will not hurt or kill 

 any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful 



