MOORLAND IDYLLS. 



outward breathing-pores. Now, these pores 

 must not be allowed to get clogged with 

 dew ; so in wet meadows and by river-banks, 

 where everything reeks with dew 'from sun- 

 set till late in the succeeding morning, almost 

 all the plants protect the breathing-pores on 

 their under side by such an unwettable felt 

 of thickly matted cotton. Meadow-sweet 

 is a familiar English example, and so is a 

 close relation of our coltsfoot, the butterbur. 



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