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and haste away. Ulleswater, Windermere, Esth- 
waitewater, Coniston, Bassentliwaite, and Thirlmere 
were visible ; the Ayrshire hills, Solway Firth, 
the sea, and range after range of mountains, the 
nearer ones seeming as soft emerald-coloured 
velvet, those far away dark blue and sober grey. 
But the ascent of Helvellyn is not all pleasure ; it 
abounds in treacherous bogs, in two of which one 
of our horses floundered. 
The day after the ascent of Helvellyn I had a 
private hunt for Yiride in an opposite direction, 
and I was most successful, finding quantities in 
the wake of the trickling watercourses down the 
hill, but not one root did I find in any other situa- 
tion. I did not once find it mixed with Tricho- 
manes, which proved to me that these two Ferns 
require totally different situations in cultivation. 
On the mountain side, where I found the As- 
plenium viride, I discovered the very beautiful 
Cystopteris I have mentioned in one of the earlier 
chapters. I have named it " Elfina." I have 
shown it to a great authority on Ferns, who calls 
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