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be put in any marish place, not too choice. Cymbalaria, 

 brilliant little annual, thrives and seeds abundantly in 

 every dampish corner or flat, making, if you choose, a 

 dainty golden contrast with the pale pale purple cruci- 

 form stars of lonopsidium acaule, similar in size, habit, 

 requirements, easiness, daintiness, and charm. These, 

 when established, will seed themselves independently from 

 year to year, and need no more care than the occasional 

 scattering of a little fresh seed. And, for dank rocks 

 near the bog or overhanging, you have Saxifraga Geum, 

 umbrosa, mutafa if you love beauty and curiosities ; 

 pennsylvanica, hieracjfoUa, and erosa if you desire coarse 

 and stalwart uglies. On dank, shady ledges, too, thrives 

 riotously one of the queenliest of all Saxifrages — my well- 

 beloved lingulata, with long, loose plumes of snow, which 

 I am now establishing in the cliff above the Lake at 

 Ingleborough, in places exactly similar to those damp 

 shelves, from which I collected profuse mats of it near 

 St. Martin Lantosque. The hypnoeides group, too, will 

 be happy on rocks in the neighbourhood of moisture, while 

 one of them, splendid aquatica, will prosper even in the 

 bog itself, though, being large and stout, it must be 

 cautiously introduced — and alas, that none of the Bur- 

 seriana group will tolerate the bog ! Nevertheless, in 

 this section, I must pause again to congratulate myself 

 on some beautiful novelties. Who Paulina may have 

 been — unless it was LoUia of that ilk, who ran, so 

 disastrously for herself, against the Augusta Agrippina 

 in the great matrimonial stakes for the hand of the 

 Emperor Claudius — I have no notion. ' No matter, no 

 matter, if I can get at her, I doubt if her mother will 

 know her again ' — so bitterly do I envy and grudge her 

 monopoly of a most rare, lovely little new Saxifrage, 

 which challenges Gloria, and extinguishes Boydi and even 

 beautiful Faldonside. Saxifraga Paulinae, from some- 



