. Flowers and their pedigrees. a plant extend all through Europe fromthe Caucasus to the Pyrenees, then stop suddenlyshort, and turn up again once more incontinentlyin Devon, Cornwall, Kerry, and Connemara. This issuch a curious fact that it really seems to call forsome adequate explanation. Let me begin by noting a few of the most strikinginstances. There is in the Bristol Channel a solitaryrocky islet known by the old Scandinavian title ofthe Steep Holme—a name given to it, no doubt, bythe wickings of the ninth century, who made it theirheadquarters for plundering the chapmen and slave-monge
. Flowers and their pedigrees. a plant extend all through Europe fromthe Caucasus to the Pyrenees, then stop suddenlyshort, and turn up again once more incontinentlyin Devon, Cornwall, Kerry, and Connemara. This issuch a curious fact that it really seems to call forsome adequate explanation. Let me begin by noting a few of the most strikinginstances. There is in the Bristol Channel a solitaryrocky islet known by the old Scandinavian title ofthe Steep Holme—a name given to it, no doubt, bythe wickings of the ninth century, who made it theirheadquarters for plundering the chapmen and slave-mongers of wealthy Bricgstow. Now the rocky cleftsof the Steep Holme are still crimson in May andJune with the brilliant red blossoms of the wildpa-ony, a flower which does not elsewhere appear Flowers and their Pedigrees. nearer to England than the Pyrenees. Not far fromAxminster in Devon, again, there is a warm shelterednook in which nestles the little village of , Kilmington Common is a place famous to /\~VA rm. Fig. 14.—Flowers of common Monkshood botanists, because it is the one single station inBritain for a small purplish lobelia, which rangeselsewhere onlv from Andalusia to central Fiance. The Romance of a Wayside Weed. 53 Dozens of like cases may be noted in the south-western peninsula of England and the similarly situ-ated corner of Wales about Pembrokeshire. Thus, tolump a long list briefly, the common blue monkshoodis found wild in South Wales and the Cornish districtonly ; the yellow draba is confined to old walls aboutPennard Castle, near Swansea; the spotted rock-cistus occurs only in the Channel Islands and atHolyhead ; the white rock-cistus is peculiar in Britainto Brent Downs in Somerset, together with Torquayand Babbicombe in Devon ; the Cheddar pink, avolcanic plant of southern Europe, clings to thecrannies of the Cheddar cliffs near Wells, and to noother crag in England ; the soapwort is wild only inCornwall and Devon ; the flax-leaved St. Joh
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