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starred; roseate and lilae convolvuluses, the deep 
rich glow of the pes-capre on the sands loses no: 
thing of its interest by rivalry. Our hedge-rows are 
usually profuse in garlands of either the distinctive 
concolvulus or the ipomea. It is the merit of the 
sea~beach-flower to have the beauty and richness of 
both. The most arid of the Port Royal sands are 
profuse with them. j 

The canavalia rosea burthens with its matting of 
trifoliate leaves the stunted acacias, and makes a 
convenient bower against sun and wind. Macfady. 
en names it the purple flowered sea-side bean, and 
sets down its habitat, as commen on the sands of 
the shore ;— purple-flowered is a better specific name 
than rosea. It is deeper-tinted than carmine, and 
looks rich when fuil of blossoms; blue-red and 
bunchy. . 
The crotalarias verrucosa and retusa, the rattle- 
wort, must be uncommonly endurable plants, te 
thrive on these hot dry sands but there they grow 
throwing out their racemes of handsome blue and 
yellow flowers amid the desert rubble, like lupins 
ina summer garden. They greatly resemble the 
lupin. In the rush of the sea.breeze they may be 
heard rattling their herd inflated pods, wakening up 
the pretty pink moths that slumber through the day 
among their palmated leaves. I confess that a flower 
that will grow in such a place as this burning shore, 
would have to me ahigh recommendation, even if it 
had no beauty, but the crotalaria, is a very ornamen- 
tal flower, only too common to attract notice. Ina 
