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My next stopping place was at Bridport, Dorsetshire, on 

 the English Channel, where I spent a delightful week. This 

 is a very paradise for the botanist. Had I been in search 

 of one of the best hunting grounds in England for wild flow- 

 ers, I could not have found a more fruitful county than 

 Dorsetshire. From the lias of the coast, up through the 

 green-sand and tertiaries, the geological formation gave 

 promise of abundance of vegetable life. The sands, the 

 chalks and the clays amply fulfilled this promise. Within 

 a few miles a very great variety of specimens was found in 

 profusion. So remarkably mild is the air on the coast, that 

 in some of the sunnier spots even tropical plants are found 

 to flourish in the open air. I made incursions into the 

 neighbouring parishes of Allington, Charmouth and Whit- 

 church Canonicorum, and to the top of Golden Cap and 

 Hardown Hill, crowned with terraces of flint. A lad belong- 

 ing to the parish of Whitchurch has just succeeded in carry- 

 ing off the Bishop of Salisbury's prize for the best collection 

 of wild flowers made by the youth of his diocese. His 

 Lordship suggested, a couple of years ago, that a varied 

 and useful recreation might be found for the youth con- 

 nected with the Church Sunday-schools in collecting and 

 arranging under their several orders, and giving the local 

 nomenclature of the immense variety of wild flowers with 

 which the diocese abound*. The successful collection em- 

 braced 611 species, and I suppose I may congratulate myself 

 upon gathering 75 new species in the same district in the 

 course of four or five days. 



A day's journey brought us next to the old Manor House 

 of Tregwynt, Parish of St Nicholas, Pembrokeshire, South 

 Wales, situated near the west coast, about halfway between 

 St. David's and Fishguard. This coast is swept by the 

 Atlantic storms and is thus denuded of forests, but it is rich 

 in botanical specimens. The soil prevailing is a dark grey 

 loam, resting on carboniferous limestone and old red sand- 

 stone, with a buttress of Igneous rocks around St. David's 

 Head. Here were Senecios, Scabiosas, Hypericums, Scillas, 



