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of a rich warm brown. Its sister species, the white 

 campion L. vespertina must also have a place 

 in our regard. We have grown it quite a yard in 

 height, and when one visits it in the evening when 

 its numerous pure white flowers are expanded it 

 forms a charming feature. Both these species are 

 common enough almost anywhere, but not therefore 

 to be by any means despised. 



The yellow-flowered plant on Plate XXXVII. is 

 the flax-leaved goldilocks, sent to us from Torquay. 

 It is found in abundance on Barry Head, due south 

 of the town, across Torbay. While really a plant 

 of Southern and Central Europe, it has strayed so 

 far north as the southern and western coasts of 

 England, where it may be found, but very locally, 

 growing in clefts of the rocks. It may be found, 

 for instance, at Worle Hill, in Somerset, and at 

 Weston-super-Mare, and abundantly on that noble 

 mass of rock, the Great Orme, near Llandudno. 



The central stem grows, as our drawing indicates, 

 boldly erect, and may be anything from about six 

 to fourteen inches high. The flower-heads, for it 

 is a composite, are borne in clusters on numerous 

 small lateral stems, and form a more or less terminal 

 mass. August and September are the months of 

 its blossoming. Botanically our plant is the Lino- 

 syris vulgaris, the Latin for flax being linum, while 

 osyris was a name bestowed by Pliny on a plant, 

 this or another, one cannot pronounce definitely, 



