. Flowers and their pedigrees. Botany. The Romance of a Wayside Weed. 5 5 grows wild in Portugal, western Spain/and the higher Pyrenees, and reappears in south-western Ireland. Another pretty little saxifrage jumps in like manner from the Asturias to Killarney. : St. Dabeoc's heath has the same range. The spiked orchid takes a great bound from Bordeaux to a sihgle station in County Galway. To sum it up shortly^ ' Crete, Auvergne, the Pyrenees, Ireland,' is a common technical description of the distribution of many beautiful south European Fig. 15.—Flower and fruit of Arbutus. No
. Flowers and their pedigrees. Botany. The Romance of a Wayside Weed. 5 5 grows wild in Portugal, western Spain/and the higher Pyrenees, and reappears in south-western Ireland. Another pretty little saxifrage jumps in like manner from the Asturias to Killarney. : St. Dabeoc's heath has the same range. The spiked orchid takes a great bound from Bordeaux to a sihgle station in County Galway. To sum it up shortly^ ' Crete, Auvergne, the Pyrenees, Ireland,' is a common technical description of the distribution of many beautiful south European Fig. 15.—Flower and fruit of Arbutus. Now, these peculiarities of distribution lead me up pretty surely to the romance of the hairy wood-spurge. They show that it did not get here by accident. Like the elephant-headed god of the Mexicans, iijie the debased traces of Buddhism in the Aztec religion, they raise an immediate curiosity as to their origin,;n,:Wh,at we may call the natural range of British plants is of this sort: they have entered the country from the Continent, vid Kent, Sussex, East Anglia, or Scotland ; and they fall for the most part under three great divisions. The first division consists pf central Euro-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. New York, D. Appleton and company
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