Hence, on walking round British coasts, the plants, as a whole, will differ from those found inland, and at every turn or change of rock and scenery new kinds appear. But many of the inland plants do go down far to the seaside, and the art of gardening and all sorts of accidents have dispersed many plants which originally were not dwellers near the sea; and, on the contrary, they have also removed seaside plants, like sea-kale and asparagus, inland and into our gardens. In many places, however, and where the sea comes up very close, the inland plants are not found. There is a very remarkable thing about this seashore and seaside flora, and it is this, that nearly all the important groups, families, or genera of inland plants have a kind or two in it, and that there are few extraordinary novelties which would enable us to say that such a set of plants was destined for the seaside. Thus the pod-bearing order, which contains the pea, bean, clover, and such plants, has many species which are only found near the sea. The toothed medick (Medicago denticulatus), and the common melilot, love sand and gravel near the sea; the star clover lives on a shingly beach near Shoreham; while two kinds of the genus lotus live on dry places, two being found near the sea in Devon and Cornwall. There is a vetch, with a pale purple flower, on the pebbly beach of Weymouth, and another of a sulphur-color likes such situations. Even the poppy order has a kind with large golden-yellow flowers, with seed-cases from 6 to 12 inches long, living on sandy seashores; and this “horned poppy” has a very interesting companion, for a poppy with a bluish-white flower with a violet spot lives in the fens and on sandy ground near the sea, and it is the kind which yields opium. The cruciferous plants, of which the wall-flower, the rocket, cabbage, mustard, etc., are examples, are well and interestingly represented at the sea. There is a sea-stock living on the sandy seacoasts of Wales, Cornwall, and Jersey. The wild cabbage, the parent of all domestic cabbages, lives on cliffs by the sea; a wild mustard is at St. Aubin’s Bay, Jersey; a white draba, not very unlike the common whitlow grass, is on sandhills by the sea in Islay. The scurvy grasses are all found on seashores, and constitute a shore group. Finally, there are the purple sea-rocket and sea-kale, loving sandy shores, and there is a rare wild sea-radish. Among other well-known inland orders of plants, such as the violets, there is a rare one with its flowers wholly yellow, or yellow with the upper part purple, living on sands by the sea. Of another order, the tamarisk may be seen close to the waves on the Essex coast; even the pink tribe has a sea bladder-campion, an alsine, and a cerastium. Again, the tree mallow lives on rocks by the sea. The rose tribe are certainly not lovers of the seashore, but there is one kind belonging to the whitethorn tribe (Cotoneaster) which ornaments the rocks of