But what a scenea labyrinth of narrow creeks, so narrow that a canoe could not pass up, haunted with alligators and boa-constrictors, parrots and white herons, amid an inextricable confusion of vegetable mud, roots of the alder-like mangroves, and tangled creepers hanging from tree to tree; and overhead huge fan-palms, delighting in the moisture, mingled with still huger broad-leaved trees in every stage of decay.

Pure lie the broad-leaved lilies on the tide, With glowing petals in the midst, that rest Like the gold shower on Danae's lovely breast; And the tall rushes cluster on the side.

What was the climate on its banks when it washed down the delicate leaves of broad-leaved trees, akin to our modern English ones, which are found in the fine mud-sand strata of Bournemouth?

Nay, there are certain patches of ground, which, having lain neglected for a time, Nature, who always has her pockets full of seeds, and holes in all her pockets, has covered with hungry plebeian growths, which fight for life with each other, until some of them get broad-leaved and succulent, and you have a coarse vegetable tapestry which Raphael would not have disdained to spread over the foreground of his masterpiece.

Messrs. Burges, Bedart, and myself rode down the Bowes to examine the country, and found it generally of good grassy character, suitable for sheep; the bed of the streams being filled with broad-leaved reeds, seems to indicate an abundant supply of water in the dry season; but the pools were very small, and the water all brackish, not even excepting the running streams.

It is all jagged with the brown butts of its old fallen leaves; and among the butts perch broad-leaved ferns, and fleshy Orchids, and above them, just below the plume of mighty fronds, the yellow fox's brush, which is its spathe of flower.

Bunches of bright yellow Cassia blossoms dangled close to our heads; white Ipomoeas scrambled over them again; and broad-leaved sedges, five feet high, carrying on bright brown flower-heads, like those of our Wood-rush, blue, black, and white shot for seeds.

{162a} The brother, in old times, of that broad-leaved sedge which carries the shot-seeds, it has long since found it more profitable to lean on others than to stand on its own legs, and has developed itself accordingly.

Here and there a Norantea, a mile or two miles off, showed like a whole crimson flower-bed in the tree-tops; or a Poui, just coming into flower, made a spot of golden yellow'a guinea stuck against the mountain-side,' as some one said; or the head of a palm broke the monotony of the broad-leaved foliage with its huge star of green.

Consequently Puttihee was built on the banks of a very pretty lake, shaped like a horseshoe, and covered with water lilies and broad-leaved green aquatic plants.

Groves of feathery bamboos and broad-leaved plumy-looking plantains almost conceal the huts and buildings.

Over its summit there started into being a long cool "draw," broad and shallow near the top, but deepening by insensible degrees into a cañon filled already with broad-leaved shrubs, and thickly grown with saplings of beech and ash.

It was a lovely wood: broad-leaved arums and primroses, and violets blue and white, covered the ground in spring, and in summer there were hundreds and hundreds of glow-worms, and the old tree-trunks were wreathed with ivy and honeysuckle.

For shallow water Menyanthus Trifoliata (Three-leaved Buckbean) and Typha Latifolia (Broad-leaved Cat's Tail) are suitable.

THYME, Broad-Leaved.

Two slim Lombardy poplars and a broad-leaved catalpa shaded the southern side, and a kitchen-garden, divided in the centre by a double row of untrimmed currant-bushes, flanked it on the east.

BROAD-LEAVED ELM.This has not been considered of so great value as the common sort, but it is of much more free growth; and I have been informed that in the West of England the timber has been found to be good and lasting.

The Batavian, or Broad-leaved.

13 brachiata Dwarf ditto c.m. 14 v. latifolia Broad-leaved ditto c.m. 15 v. laevis Smooth broad-leaved ditto c.m. 16 v. spinosa

w. Virginian Creeper c.m. 108 - Helix v. latifolia Broad-leaved Ivy. c. c.m. 109 Vitis vitifera.

430 Tilia americana Broad-leaved American Lime c.m. 431 - v. corallina

455 v. obovata Broad-leaved ditto b.l.s.

Candleberry Myrtle b.l. 661 v. latifolia Broad-leaved ditto b.l. DIOECIA PENTANDRIA.

196 Hypoxis erecta Upright Hypoxis c.m. 197 Ornithogalum nutans Nodding Star of Bethlehem c.m. 198 pyrenaicum Pyrenean ditto c.m. 199 latifolium Broad-leaved ditto c.m. 200 Scilla peruviana Peruvian-Hyacinth c.m. 201 campanulata Spansh Squill c.m.

c.m. 589 elliptica Oval-leaved ditto c.m. 590 stricta Willow-leaved ditto c.m. 591 latifolia Broad-leaved ditto c.m. 592 laevigata Fleshy-leaved ditto c.m. 593 caesia Maryland ditto c.m.