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Narcissus hiflorus. — Wild about Carclew and in some other places, 

 but probably escaped from gardens. 



Foxgloves. — These luxuj-iate in some places, notably at Lamorna, and 

 flower fully a month earlier than about London. 



Viola canina. — The finest and largest-flowered forms I have ever seen 

 grow about Lamorna. 



Bhinajithus Crista-galli (Yellow Rattle).— Common at Lamorna. 



Plantago maritima. — I gathered several leaf varieties at the Logan 

 Rock and at Land's End, growing indiscriminately in the earth or on the 

 bare rock, and washed by salt spray daily. 



Festuca ovina. — In varietal if not in typical form, this grass is found 

 only just above the tide limit. 



Feens. 



Tree-ferns (mostly Dicksonia antarctica) flourish, and most gardens of 

 any pretension reserve a sheltered nook for their cultivation. The finest 

 specimens I saw were undoubtedly those grown by Mr. Bolitho at Tre- 

 widden, where sunken dells had been prepared for them, from the banks 

 surrounding which the spectator could look down upon the ferns, and 

 from such vantage-points see the full beauty of them. 



The wild ferns were almost equally interesting and beautiful, the 

 walls, rocks, and stone-revetted banks of the hedges were covered with an 

 exuberant growth of ferns of many kinds, strongly reminding me of the 

 ferneries of the Portuguese coast. Especially on the Logan Rock, I saw 

 splendid forms of Asplenium marinum, but you have to climb for them if 

 you want them, for all those easily reached are gathered as fast as they 

 grow. I also gathered rare forms of Asplenium nigrum on the Logan 

 Rock. 



