BOWERY CHASM. 
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bodies vertical and liorizontal wings, also fell 
victims to mj predatory predilections. I dis- 
covered some specimens of the Helivingia riisci- 
folia, a singular little plant described by Siebold, 
and I secured a few fronds of the glorious fern, 
Anemia ternata, which flowers in the same manner 
as the Osmund Eoyal. 
Proceeding on our journey, we ascended the 
gully, still follo^ving the course of the tumbling 
burn which flowed along the bottom. Above and 
around, clumps of light green oaks were mingled 
with sombre-spreading fir-trees, with occasional 
patches of elder, and here and there with soft, 
billowy clusters of Cryptomeria japonica. Impend- 
ing overhead were grey slate-stone rocks peeping 
out from among the trees, while high aloft, con- 
spicuous by her gorgeous head of crowded fox-glove 
blossoms, towered the Paulownia Impcrialis — truly 
a sylvan queen. Another curious pale broad nebula 
‘ in the sea of green Avas caused by thousands of up- 
turned bracts of Benthamia japonica. 
As we emerged suddenly from our bowery chasm 
