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mentioned ; the other Bellis, the sea-daisy, of which 

 there is an excellent description and plates in Mr. 

 Gosse's " Eambles in Devon," pp. 24 to 32. 



It is common at Ilfracombe, and at Torquay ; and 

 indeed everywhere where there are cracks and small 

 holes in limestone or slate rock. In these holes it 

 fixes its base, and expands its delicate brown-grey 

 star-like flowers on the surface : but it must be 

 cliipped out with hammer and chisel, at the expense 

 of much dirt and patience ; for the moment it is 

 touched it contracts deep into the rock, and all 

 that is left of the daisy flower, some two or three 

 inches across, is a blue knot of half the size of a 

 marble. But it will expand again, after a day 

 or two of captivity, and will repay all the trouble 

 which it has cost. Troglodytes may be found, as 

 I have said already, in hundreds at Hastings, in 

 similar situations to that of Bellis ; its only token, 

 when the tide is down, being a round dimple 

 in the muddy sand which fills the lower cracks of 

 rocks. 



But you will want more than these anemones, 



