[15] Not so obtuse of heart we Tyrians are.
[16] Rabbits eat the leaves without harm to themselves, but their flesh becomes injurious to human beings. A case of poisoning of this sort was lately reported from Oxted.
[17] For a charming description of the purple saxifrage, see Holidays in High Lands, by Hugh Macmillan (1869).
[18] See The Flora of Carnarvonshire, by John E. Griffith, and A Flora of the English Lake District, by J. G. Baker, two books which are of great value in showing the localities of mountain plants.
[19] In Parkinson's Theatrum Botanicum (1640) it is remarked of rose-root that it grows "oftentimes in the ruggiest places, and most dangerous of them, scarce accessible, and so steepe that they may soon tumble downe that doe not very warily looke to their footing."
[20] Wild Flowers of Scotland, by J. H. Crawford.
[21] In the Cairngorm mountains, the globe-flower ascends to a height of 3,000 feet (see Mr. Seton Gordon's Wanderings of a Naturalist); in the Alps to 8,000.
[22] "This [herb] was choice, because of prime use in medicine; and that, more choice, for yielding a rare flavour to pottage; and a third choicest of all, because possessed of no merit but its extreme scarcity."—Scott's Quentin Durward.
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