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 CORNWALL within its borders: woods and rivers, brackish marshes and spongy bogs, bleak barren moors, lofty hills, rocky cairns, estuaries and sand dunes; besides a vast range of wild rugged sea- coast, rich beyond measure in all forms of marine life, animal and vegetable." Mr. Edward Step, speaking of South Corn- wall, says: "In winter the hcdgebanks are still bright with fresh green ferns, illuminated by the abundant flowers of red campion and herb Robert, and at Christmas the fields are often white with myriads of daisies". The visitor has thus reason to expect an ex- tensive list of flora, and he will certainly find remarkable variety if not unparalleled wealth. For thorough treatment of this subject the works of Ralfs, Curnow, Baker, Tellam, and others should be consulted. Penzance Public Library contains many such valuable works, some only in manuscript. It is impossible here to do more than hint at a few interesting points. About looo flowering plants ma}' be found in Cornwall. Among these are the clovers, TnfoHum Mollmeri, Trifolium Bocconi and Trtfolium str'utum ; the heaths Er/ra z'agtifis and Erira ciliaris ; the balm-leaved figwort, Srrophu- laria scorodoma ; the rushes "J uncus pygmeus and 'J uncus capitntus ; the vernal squill, ^cilla verna ; the worts Hypericum boetkum and Plnguicula granl- flora; the garlics Allium sibiricum and Jlfium triquetrum ; many varieties of spurge, brooms, vetches and trefoils, gentians and samphires. Ferns are particularly plentiful, but much