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seldom, if ever, on the heaths or hills of the south, 

 the bogbean is true to suitable localities from one 

 end of the kingdom to the other. In early May it 

 opens its flower-spike above the water of the sedgy 

 lakelets that stud the shingle beds of Dungeness in 

 the extreme south-east ; and by August it comes 

 into blossom in the far north-west, where the hills 

 of Harris loom across the peat-hags of Uist. 



