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in Caernarvonshire; between Rhuddgaer and Llandzvyn, in 

 the Isle of Anglesea; about Port Inon, in Glamorganshire ; 

 near Mevagissey, in Cornwall ; marly cliffs, near Teignmouth, 

 and Sidmouth, in Devonshire ; on Chesil Bank, chalk cliffs 

 at Weymouth, Lulworth Cove, and about Boole, in Dorsetshire ; 

 at Western Court, in Hampshire; near Worthing and Shore- 

 ham, cliffs at Beachy Head, and near Hastings, in Sussex ; 

 between Folkstone and Dover ; at St. Margaret's and Langdon 

 Bays, between Whitstable and the Isle of Thanet, at LicMe, in 

 Kent ; near Harwich, in Essex ; on the north coast of 2VW- 

 folk, abundantly ; near Fast-castle, Berwickshire. According 

 to Dr. Smith, sandy shores are its natural soil, but by what 

 I can learn from others, as well as my own personal observa- 

 tion, it prefers loamy cliffs, mixed with gravel. I found it 

 near Dover, also in Sussex, in stiff loam : to the extensive 

 beach of pure sand, both above and below Scarborough, in 

 Yorkshire, it is, I believe, quite a stranger. 



The whole plant is smooth, of a beautiful glaucus hue, 

 covered with a very fine meal : occasionally, however, it 

 varies like the wallflower-leaved ten-weeks Stock, with quite 

 green leaves. Root dark brown, perennial, running deep into 

 the ground, divided into numerous wide spreading branches, 

 but not creeping* Radical leaves very large, and spread- 

 ing wide upon the ground, waved, more or less sinuated, 



* Root not creeping, in the proper sense of that word, as Parkinson, Miller, 

 and Bryant have described it ; but if the branches be divided into a number of 

 pieces, each piece will grow if committed to the earth : and as it is impossible 

 to dig among the widely extended roots of these plants without cutting many of 

 them, and leaving a number of fragments, plants arise from such around the ori- 

 ginal, and give to it the appearance of having creeping roots. Curt. 



