BOTANICAL RAMBLES. BY THE REV. C. A. JOHNS, B.A., F.L.S., HEAD MASTER OF THE HELSTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL, CORNWALL. PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMITTEE OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION, CHRISTIAN KNOWledge. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE, SOLD AT THE DEPOSITORY, GREAT QUEEN ST. LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, AND 4, ROYAL EXCHANGE; 1846. BOBLEIRA 24.6.1913 RARY LONDON: Printed by S. & J. BENTLEY, WILSON, and FLEY, BOTANICAL RAMBLES. CHAPTER I. THE MEADOW. "What though I trace each herb and flower You asked me a few days ago, of what use were all the dried plants which I was so carefully fastening to paper; and you will recollect, perhaps, that I then evaded the question, suffering you for the time to think that I was committing great waste in spoiling so much good paper. When I told you, on another occasion, that, amongst my numerous collection of stones, stained with spots of yellow, and grey, and black, there were none which contained any useful mineral, you seemed yet more surprised. "Had they been specimens of ore," you said, " you could conceive it possible that they might be worth collecting and examining ;" and I saw at the same time (although you expressed no opinion on the subject) that you thought me a sad trifler, devoting, to a very unprofitable subject, time which might advantageously be employed in reading some instructive or even merely entertaining book. B |