The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . s on the highest of theHighland mountain-rocks. I think one of the twobotanists said he had gathered this, too, on BenNevis. They had only a weeks holiday, and hadcome all the way from Edinburgh to look for suchtreasure-trove in Devonshire and South Wales ;and they spoke with infectious enthusiasm of theiradventure. At Park Mill may be found—where precisely itwould not be right to disclose—the Hairy Cress,Arabis hirsuta, another of the cruciform the sands in the neighbourhood, too, may beseen the Sea Storks Bill—Erodium maritimum—an
The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . s on the highest of theHighland mountain-rocks. I think one of the twobotanists said he had gathered this, too, on BenNevis. They had only a weeks holiday, and hadcome all the way from Edinburgh to look for suchtreasure-trove in Devonshire and South Wales ;and they spoke with infectious enthusiasm of theiradventure. At Park Mill may be found—where precisely itwould not be right to disclose—the Hairy Cress,Arabis hirsuta, another of the cruciform the sands in the neighbourhood, too, may beseen the Sea Storks Bill—Erodium maritimum—and other sand-loving plants. The Sea Storks Billhas spiral seed-caps which untwist in the rain, andcan jump like a frog. Hordeum maritimum is some- THE EAST GOWER COAST 191 thing seen too, but more and more rarely. TheOsmunda regalis was to be seen a few summers ago,growing wild in the marshes of Western Meadow Clary, one of the sages, is another un-common plant found in the peninsula, which is notusually thought a native of THE MALEVOLENT DRAGON I PENNARD CHURCH (p. 187). CHAPTER XVIII THE GO WEB CAVES—THE RED LADY OP PAVILAND —GOODWICK AND PENRICE—ARTHURS STONE—WORMS HEAD—WEOBLEY CASTLE AND THELASS OF PENCLAWDD Within reach on foot from Oystermouth, andstretching along the whole south coast of Gower,beginning at Bacon Hole—suggestive name—youhave two series of caves to explore, some of whichrepresent the earliest kind of cliff-castle knownin Britain. But for the sake of the adventure,you ought to follow the coast round Pwll Du, andsee the camp above. If you have come from Caswell Bay, you havealready passed Brandy Cove, and crossed the endof the Bishopston valley, up which the smugglersused to run their brandy-wine and other goodsand now a famous objective, because of its extremepicturesqueness, for Gower picnickers and holi-day-makers. The way up the valley, from theBeaufort Arms, and this side of High Pennard,after crossing the stream,
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