54 Flowers -aiid their- Pedigrees. 



at Torquay and in Jersey and Guernsey. In almost 

 all, if not in allj these cases the plant is a southern one, 

 which extends usually from the Caspian to Spain, is 

 perhaps found as far north as the Gironde or even 

 ;the. Loire, and then disappears again till it turns up 

 suddenly in some exceptionally sheltered nook of 

 Devon, Cornwall, or South Wales. This is a pheno- 

 menon which cannot surely be due to chance alone. 

 Indeed, I might greatly increase the list, but I refralin 

 H3nly because I am afraid of being wearisome. 



When we turn to the similarly placed south- 

 western corner of Ireland^ the peculiarities we meet 

 are even more remarkable. I shall never forget my 

 surprise when oncej after my first visit to Nice and 

 Mentone, I began describing the beautiful Provengal 

 flowers to an Irish botanist, and was quietly an- 

 swered, 'Ah, yes; we have them all at Killarney.' 

 But it is really true none the less. The thick-leaved 

 sedum, after sWpping all England and Wales, shows 

 itself suddenly in the Cove of Cork; The pretty 

 Mediterranean heath, which every winterer at Pau 

 has gathered by handfuls on the hills about Eaux 

 Chaudes or Cauterets, jumps at a bound to the coast 

 of Kerry. The arbutus, with its clustering white 

 blossoms and beautiful red berries, is similarly found 

 in Provence and again at Glengariff. London Pride 



