Localities. — On banks and cliffs near the sea. — Devon; At Budleigh- 
Salterton: Sir W. J. Hooker, and H. Woollcombe, Esq. said not to be wild 
there. On the shore below Longroom Point, Plymouth, gathered two successive 
seasons, but hardly wild, and not plentiful: W. A. Bromfield, in'N. B. G. — 
Middlesex ; Among the refuse of gardens, on Hampstead Heath, not wild: A. 
Irvine, in Lond. FI. — Nor/ol/c ; On a rock near Cromer : Miss Bell, in N.B.G. 
— Somersetshire ; Naturalized on waste ground near Woodland Place, Bath: 
C. C. Babington, Esq. Burnham Sands: J. C. Collins, in N. B. G. — 
WALES. Merionethshire; Sands near Barmouth : H. Woollcombe, Esq. — 
SCOTLAND. About half a mile from the Sea, near Aberdeen: Professor \V. 
Duncan, by whom it was first added to the British Flora. 
Perennial. — Flowers from May to November. 
Root very tough, branched, whitish, and fibrous. Stem from 4, 
to 8 or 10 inches high, either procumbent or upright, somewhat 
woody at the base, much branched, leafy, and clothed — like the 
leaves, calyx, and germen — with forked, close-pressed, silvery 
hairs. Leaves alternate, sessile, strap-spear-shaped, entire, taper- 
ing at the base, hoary, and of a glaucous-green colour. Flowers 
small, very numerous, sweet scented, in dense, tufted, or corymbose 
clusters, much elongated when in fruit. Petals roundish, of a 
brilliant white colour. Stamens simple, and, like the claws of the 
petals, turning purple in.decay. Pouch nearly round, smooth, with 
a few scattered hairs, shining, slightly tumid, with one seed in 
each cell. 
This plant is a native along the Mediterranean Sea, in the South, 
and in other parts of Europe. It is frequently cultivated in gardens 
on account of its agreeable honey-like scent, where it is usually 
treated as an annual. It begins flowering as early as May or June, 
and continues in bloom till near Christmas. Dr. Withering 
thinks it might prove a valuable acquisition to the apiarian border. 
A striped variety of this species is not uncommon in gardens, 
where it is treated as a Green-house shrub ; this should be increased 
by cuttings, which strike readily if planted under a hand-glass. 
“Ye are not miss’d, fair flowers, that late were spreading 
The Summer’s glow by fount and dreary grot; 
There falls the dew, its fairy favours shedding, — 
The leaves dance on, the young birds miss you not. 
Still plays the sparkle o’er the rippling water, 
O Lily ! whence thy cup of pearl hath gone; 
The bright wave mourns not for its loveliest daughter. 
There is no sorrow in the wind's low tone. 
And thou, meek Hyacinth ! afar is roving 
The bee that oft thy trembling bells hath kiss’d; 
Cradled ye were, fair flowers ! midst all things loving, 
A joy to all; yet, yet ye are not miss’d ! 
Ye, that were born to lend the sunbeam gladness, 
And the winds fragrance, wandering where |hey list, — 
Oh ! it were breathing words loo deep iu sadness, 
To say, Earth’s human flowers not more are miss'd 
Mis. Hemans. 
