ON M US BURY CASTLE, 



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the neighbourhood for many miles ; and it is 

 to get a few sprigs of this rare flower that I 

 have come up here to-day, as is my yearly 

 wont. I have just pulled It up, root and all, 

 out of a chink in the rubble this moment ; 

 and I shall take it home in my little tin case 

 by-and-by to examine It at my leisure here- 

 after, and make quite sure about some odd 



small points in its mode of flowering whose 

 meaning and purpose I have not yet been 



able thoroughly to understand. 



Meanwhile, what a curious fact it is, this 



regular recurrence of the same plants and 



animals in the same situations from season to 



season ! When once you have learned a 



little district thoroughly, it Is wonderful how 



constant the geographical distribution of its 



fauna and flora always remains. In one 



marshy spot hereabout, and one alone, I 



find, summer after summer, the sundew and 



the bog asphodel. In one lane, from time 



Immemorial, th*^ green hellebore has flowered, 



and nowhere else. On the cliffs to eastward, 



