bourne Leas : Rev. G. R. Smith. Ashdown ami Waterdown Forests, &c. : FI. 
Toub. — Lancash. Near Collision: Miss Susan Biivi.h. At Southport; G. 
Cnosrm i). Esq. — Norfolk; Rollt-sby, Belton, Nr. not uncommon: Hist. Yar. 
— Northumberland ; On Newcastle Town Moor, !>y the road leading to Beli- 
ton : Rev. J. Biiikmt.— In Nottinghamshire ; T. II. ( norm, in N. B. G. — 
Surrey; Near Battersea, and on the West side of Wandsworth Common : Mr. 
W. Pa.mpi.in, jun. Coulsdon : K. Wood, in N. B. G. — Waruicksh. Coleshill 
Pool : T. Purton, Ksq. About a mile south of Rugby, on the side of the Baiby 
road, opposite Mr. Richardson’s Farm; July 2, 1831, very sparingly; VV. B. — 
Worcestersh. Astwood Heath: T. Purton, Ksq. — Yorksh. liutton Moor; 
Copwold ; Stockton Forest: N. J. Winch, Esq. — WALES. Anglesey; On 
wet commons : Rev. II. Daviis. — Merionethsh. Low rocks, Barmouth: J. E. 
Bowman, in N. B. G. — SCOTLAND. Beru-icksh. Ancroft Moor: Dr. G. 
Johnston. Jcolmkill : Sir .Ioskmi Banks. Langside: Dr. Brown. Road- 
side between Dumbarton and Helensburgh, plentiful : Horkirk. Banks of the 
Sprey, between Fochabers and Orton: Mr. Mai chan. Kinross-shire and 
Angus-shire : Mr. Arnott. (Jinny : Rev. Mr. Ritchie. About Loch Ransa 
in Arran; and common in the North counties; Perth, Inverness, &c.: Mr. 
Murray. — IRELAND. GlangarifF: Mr. Drummond. Marshy giounds near 
Brandon: Mr. J. T. Mackay. Rosses and Fanet, Donegal : FI. Murphy, Esq. 
in Mag. Nat. Hist. v. i. p. 437. 
Annual. — Flowers in July and August. 
Root fibrous, small. Stem upright, from an inch to two inches 
and a half high, repeatedly forked, cylindrical, smooth, leafy, many- 
flowered, moderately spreading, and somewhat corymbose. Leaves 
opposite, small, sessile, egg-shaped, smooth, entire, 3-ribbed. 
Flowers white, very minute, on slender, thread-shaped flower-stalks, 
solitary, from the forks of the stem, as well as its ultimate branches. 
Petals 4, white, alternate with the principal segments of the calyx. 
Capsule of a light brown colour, rather depressed. 
The specimen of this curious and interesting little plant, from 
which the drawing for the accompanying plate was made, was 
obligingly communicated to me by Miss Susan Beever,w1io ga- 
thered it in the vicinity of Coniston, Lancashire. To the kindness 
of this young lady, and that of her sister, Miss Mary Beever, I 
am indebted for the four plants figured in this Number. 
There is no branch of Natural Flistory so well adapted for the study and amuse- 
ment of young ladies as that of Botany ; it is, indeed, as Sir J. Ft. Smith has 
very justy observed, a science in which “ all is elegance and delight, and in 
which no painful, disgusting, unhealthy experiments or inquiries are to b# 
made;” but, on the contrary, "its pleasuies spring up under our feet, and, as 
we pursue them, reward us with health and setene satisfaction.” 
It is recorded of the amiable and pious Mrs. Ft. Rowe, that there was scarcely 
a flower, a plant, an insect, or a bird, that grew, crept, or sung in her garden, 
which did not administer to her happiness. In one of her ietlers to her sister, 
she says, “ 1 have been just taking a solitary walk, and entertaining myself with 
all the innocent pleasures, that verdant shades, painted flowers, fragrant breezes, 
and warbling birds can yield. If I could communicate my pleasuies by descrip- 
tion, I would call the muses to assist me ; hut 1 am afraid it would he insipid to 
you, that are but moderately fond of the country. Yet I am sure you would 
relish any pleasure that heightened your devotion ; and what can more effectually 
raise it, than viewing the beauties of nature? 1 have been pulling a thousand 
flowers in pieces, to view their elegance and variety, and have a thousand times 
with rapture repeated Milton’s lines: 
These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, 
Almighty, thine this universal frame. 
Thus wondrous fair ! thyself how wondrous then ! 
Speak, ye. who best can tell, ye sons of light, 
Angels; — for ye behold him. — 
They indeed behold the great original ; but it is not denied me to trace his foot- 
steps in the flowery fields, and hear some faint echoes of his voice in the harmony 
of birds, or meet his gentle whispers in the softness of the evening breezes ; ytt 
this only raises my impatience to be admitted to the blissful vision of uncreated 
beauty.” Lett. xiv. p. 198. 
