92 HARDY FERNS. 
Scilly made visible by the gleam of a setting 
sun. 
On this one excursion you may find Osmundas 
at Lamorna Cove, Lastrea recurva by the hedge 
side, Asplenium lanceolatum in the walls, marinum 
on the rocks, and all the common Ferns every- 
where. Besides the Ferns, the district abounds 
in rare wild flowers, such as are not often found in 
England. 
One of the most pleasant excursions from Pen- 
zance is to Cape Cornwall. The carriage must be 
put up at the small mining town of St. Just, which 
is situated about a mile and a half from the 
Cape. The rock juts out from the sea, bold, 
erect, and defiant, — able to cope with, and to 
hurl back again, the angry waves as they rave 
at its base. 
I have never seen such glorious waves as at 
the Land's End and Cape Cornwall. They seem 
imbued with some living power of evil, urging 
them on in mad fury to destruction. To the west 
of Cape Cornwall there are two dangerous rocks, 
