the Great Orme’s Head, in Carnarvonshire; and a solitary kind of the thick-leaved plants, a sedum, lives there also, loving the limestone soil. The Corrigiola littoralis of the southwest of England has white-stalked flowers. The sea-holly, with its blue flowers in a head or umbel, lives on sandy seashores; the wild fennel, the Scottish lovage, and the fleshy-leaved, whitish-flowered samphire love rocks by the sea. The sea-carrot lives on the southwestern coasts. The red valerian is found on chalk cliffs; but no other of its tribe, or of the teazels or scabious set, is found particularly as a seashore plant. Both the composite orders, of which the daisy and the asters are examples, and which form so large a part of the inland flora, have many seashore species. Thus, there is the golden samphire, allied to the elecampane plant, the sea-diotis, the sea-feverfew, and the sea-wormwood. There is, or was, a wild cineraria on the rocks of Holyhead, and there is a thistle with pink flowers which loves sandy places by the sea. The least lettuce likes chalky places. One of the centaury kinds lives on sandy seashores, and there is a seaside bindweed with very handsome pink flowers with yellow bands. One of the bugloss tribe lives on northern seashores, and there is a curious great snap-dragon which is to be found about cliffs overhanging the sea. The primroses and pimpernels are not inhabitants of the seashore, but two sets of plants, called glaux and samolus, belonging to their order, frequent the shore and salt marshes. Then there is the sea-lavender tribe with four kinds, all living in England, or Ireland, on rocky shores and salt marshes; and the thrift plant likes the shore as well as the mountain top, a distribution which is noticed also in the sea-plantain. Many of the spinach tribe, such as the glass worts, the sea-beet, the salsolas, and the sea-purslane, inhabit the shores, and some of them were formerly used in the preparation of barilla. Such a common thing as the dock could hardly be found away from the sea, and there is really a sea-dock found on the marshland; and the Channel Islands have a sea-snake-weed. A thorny shrub with lancet-shaped silvery leaves, and attaining the length of from four to six feet, frequents sandy spots and cliffs, on the southeast and east coasts, and is called the sea-buckthorn. There is also a sea-spurge. The wild asparagus, with a stem not one-third of the height of the cultivated kind, but the true parent of all asparagus, is a rare plant, but it has been found at Kynance Cove, Cornwall, Callar Point, Pembroke, and at Gosford Links in Scotland. Another important plant, the onion, has its representatives on the rocks of Guernsey, and another called chives is a Cornish cliff seaside dweller. The rushes have several kinds on salt marshes and shores, and there is a plant called the zostera, with long leaves, which flourishes under water on many parts of the eastern coast.