Wild flowers as they grow, photographed in colour direct from nature . e Heath is far older than legend and fairy tale,and lies in eras which even tradition cannot the Sherlock Holmes among the botanists,deducing much from little evidence, aided andabetted, too, by the geologist on this occasion, saysthat the Heath is the flower of a lost continent, acontinent whose existence is highly spoke of this land as Atlantis, other chroniclersrefer to it as Lyonesse, and it was supposed to havelain out in the Atlantic, joining Ireland, the ScillyIsles, Spain and the Azores.
Wild flowers as they grow, photographed in colour direct from nature . e Heath is far older than legend and fairy tale,and lies in eras which even tradition cannot the Sherlock Holmes among the botanists,deducing much from little evidence, aided andabetted, too, by the geologist on this occasion, saysthat the Heath is the flower of a lost continent, acontinent whose existence is highly spoke of this land as Atlantis, other chroniclersrefer to it as Lyonesse, and it was supposed to havelain out in the Atlantic, joining Ireland, the ScillyIsles, Spain and the Azores. Here the Heath wasa native, and from thence it spread somewhat east-ward. Then came a great subsidence—of the actualcatastrophe tradition can tell nothing—and only apatch of land here and there remained above thewaters, but the Heath was left on all, and certainrare species found only in Cornwall, Ireland andSpain speak of the vanished land-links. All thespecies—and there are four hundred of them—still belong to the region of the Atlantic, and are known 192. CROSS LEAVED HEATH The Gross-Leaved Heath only on the western part of Europe (though theyhave run round the coast of the Mediterranean) andSouth West Africa. They haye never travelled tothe continents of Asia and America, except whendirectly taken by man. In Australia they are alsounknown as indigenous. In Great Britain only five out of these fourhundred can claim this cotmtry as a native home,and of these, three keep strictly to very hmitedareas in Cornwall and Ireland. The remaining two,namely, the Scotch Heath {Erica cinerea) and theCross-leaved Heath {Erica tetralix), the subject ofour picture, alone range over Britain. (The commonheather or ling, whose tiny flowers are arranged inlong spikes, was once included among the Heaths,but now is considered a separate genus.) TheScotch heath and the Cross-leaved Heath haveflowers that are alike in structure, though in thefirst-named they are a reddish-purple and arearr
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