. Flowers and their pedigrees . red, * Ah, yes; we have them all at it is really true none the less. The thick-leavedsedum, after skipping all England and Wales, showsitself suddenly in the Cove of Cork. The prettyMediterranean heath, which every winterer at Pauhas gathered by handfuls on the hills about EauxChaudes or Cauterets, jumps at a bound to the coastof Kerry. The arbutus, with its clustering whiteblossoms and beautiful red berries, is similarly foundin Provence and again at Glengariff. London Pride The Romance of a Wayside Weed. 55 grows wild in Portugal, western Spain,
. Flowers and their pedigrees . red, * Ah, yes; we have them all at it is really true none the less. The thick-leavedsedum, after skipping all England and Wales, showsitself suddenly in the Cove of Cork. The prettyMediterranean heath, which every winterer at Pauhas gathered by handfuls on the hills about EauxChaudes or Cauterets, jumps at a bound to the coastof Kerry. The arbutus, with its clustering whiteblossoms and beautiful red berries, is similarly foundin Provence and again at Glengariff. London Pride The Romance of a Wayside Weed. 55 grows wild in Portugal, western Spain, and the higherPyrenees, and reappears in south-western pretty little saxifrage jumps in like mannerfrom the Asturias to Killarney. St. Dabeocs heathhas the same range. The spiked orchid takes a greatbound from Bordeaux to a single station in CountyGalway. To sum it up shortly, Crete, Auvergne,the Pyrenees, Ireland, is a common technicaldescription of the distribution of many beautiful southEuropean Fig. 15.—Flower and fruit of Arbutus. Now, these peculiarities of distribution lead me uppretty surely to the romance of the hairy show that it did not get here by accident. Likethe elephant-headed god of the Mexicans, like thedebased traces of Buddhism in the Aztec religion, theyraise an immediate curiosity as to their origin. Whatwe may call the natural range of British plants is ofthis sort: they have entered the country from theContinent, via Kent, Sussex, East Anglia, or Scotland ;and they fall for the most part under three greatdivisions. The first division consists of central Euro- 56 Flowers and their Pedigrees. pean plants, which seem as if they had come in fromthe east : and of these a {q.\v get no farther than theeastern counties ; a great many spread over the wholecountry ; and the remainder have reached to the westand to Ireland. The second division is that of theScandinavian plants, which seem as if they had comein from
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