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the somewhat rare Tunbridge Filmy Fern, Wilson’s 
Filmy Fern, and the delicate and beautiful Marsh 
Buckler Fern. From this point a precipitous 
ascent leads on to Lustleigh Cleave. We can 
give no better description of this Cleave than by 
comparing it to a huge Fern rockery. By some 
singular agency, the hill-sides have been strewn 
with blocks of granite, of all shapes and sizes. It 
-is really difficult to understand how this curious 
phenomenon could have been produced, though 
it would seem that volcanic action of some kind 
must have had something to do with the original 
formation of Lustleigh Cleave. But the present 
effect is singularly beautiful. Here, as elsewhere, 
the Ferns have taken possession of the ground, 
and have given an indescribably graceful aspect 
to the strewn boulders. Beaching the top of the 
Cleave, after a toilsome ascent, we made for the 
Logan, or Nutcracker Bock. Near this rock, 
peering into the stony crevices, we made a pleas¬ 
ing discovery. We found in one of the interstices, 
between the gigantic masses of granite which 
cover the hill-top, several specimens of the Lan¬ 
ceolate Spleenwort. They were growing in one 
