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colours, cover the meadows in May ; and Neottia spiralis is, 
in several of them, equally plentiful in September. Listera 
ovata is in great profusion, and Epipactis latifolia very spa- 
ringly found in the woods. 
Of the other plants that belong to this division, Convallaria 
majalis, Scilla nutans, and Allium ursinum, occupy extensive 
plots, and almost exclusively; whilst Fritillaria Meleagris and 
Ornithogalum umbellatum are found only occasionally in 
shady groves or copses. 
I have not mentioned the multitudinous specimens of 
Carex, Scirpus, and Eleocharis, of Callitriche, Alisma, and 
Sparganium, or of Typha, Juncus, and Luciola, which we 
meet at every step. But the Cotton grass which grows in the 
bog on the common, may interest those who have not had an 
opportunity of seeing this plant in some other situation. 
Amongst the Endogenous genera here noticed, economical 
use is almost entirely confined to the Grasses and Rushes ; 
yet it is not likely that the remaining splendid vegetation is 
designed for ornament alone, although that object is most 
extensively pursued in the whole material creation. 
III. Dicotyledonous (or Exogenous ) Plants. 
As the Cryptogamous division of the vegetable kingdom 
prevails in the more northern climes, and the Monocotyledo- 
nous in the more southern regions, the Dicotyledonous seem 
naturally to prevail in temperate climates; for even the 
grasses of the climate are, in a great degree, the result of 
husbandry. 
Some of the plants now under consideration, indeed, may 
often be observed in flower during the most torpid part of 
the winter. And, in the earliest months of the year, long 
before the sun has returned to our hemisphere, the relaxed 
catkins of the hazel, and the bursting flower-buds of the 
elm along every hedge-row, the banks and walls glittering 
with Draba verna, and the meadows covered with the earlier 
Veronicas, give us sufficient proof that our summer herbage 
had not been dead, but asleep. The sheltering woods and 
hedges, too, soon induce their timid clients to trust their soft 
petals, for a few hours, to the open air. 
April, however, witnesses in this country, the chief struggle 
between the departing and the coming season. And the 
