8 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. 



more especially when it is found fringing the roadway 

 by the side of the former residences of Wordsworth and 

 Coleridge and other of our poets amid the hills. When 

 the neophyte inquires for the name of this plants he is 

 often told it is the celandine^ from which it differs in the 

 most decided manner. This^ indeed, is the Welsh poppy 

 [Mecoiiopsis C'ambrica) , one of the most beautiful and en- 

 gaging of British weeds, and Cbpeeially worthy of note, 

 from its persistency in creeping close to the walls that 

 have sheltered many of the brightest wits and happiest 

 versifiers whose names glitter in our great Walhalla, 



