78 Floivers and their Pedigrees. 



southern clovers, and lots of other rarities. Penzance, 

 at the very horn of Cornwall, has five or six speciali- 

 ties. The position of Kerry gives it a climate like 

 that of Finisterre, with the appropriate flora. Wild 

 madder belongs only to a few headlands of Pem- 

 brokeshire, the Damnonian peninsula, and the south- 

 west of Ireland. Torquay, on the promontory of 

 Hope's Nose, shares a southern buplcvcr with the 

 Channel Islands. Babbicombe has a species almost 

 to itself. Corfe Castle, in the so-called Isle of Pur- 

 beck in Dorset, divides a Spanish heather with Corn- 

 wall and the West of Ireland. One kind of rest- 

 harrow, after getting up from the Pyrenees as far as 

 the Channel Islands, then positively takes a second 

 spring to the Mull of Galloway. As to the number 

 of Mediterranean plants which are found in Britain 

 only in Devon and Cornwall, or in Kerry and Conne- 

 mara, or in both, I spare you the recital of them. 

 Even the more inland and moorland types, which 

 each survive on one high common alone, answer to 

 the same law ; for they occur on the warmest moors, 

 in the neighbourhood of the sunniest south-western 

 slopes. Thus the Cheddar pink grows in a single 

 basking hollow heated by radiation from two great 

 walls of limestone rock upon the western flanks 

 of Mendip : the purple lobelia loiters on a bright 



