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Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1859 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. PLANTS OF SOUTHPORT. I have cured weak stomachs by engaging the persons in the study of Botany, and particularly in the investigation of our native plants. Dr. Cullen. Abundant and diversified above All number, were the sources of delight; One made acquaintanceship with plants and flowers, And happy grew in telling all their names. Pollock. No branch of natural history affords more real pleasure than the study of Botany; and whether pursued as mere amusement, or for scientific purposes, it is alike valuable. The healthful exercise of collecting plants in their native localities, and the amusement afforded by the research, mentally and bodily, tend to that renovation of the physical powers for which the valetudinarian seeks the healthful shores of Southport. Though no striking or picturesque scenes are to be met with, the range of hills by which it is partially surrounded is so interspersed with valleys and marshy land, in addition to the mosses and meres more inland, that a very extensive field for botanical pursuits is opened to the student, and no slight pleasure is to be found in accumulating the beautiful floral treasures of its neighbourhood. A botanist rambling among the sandhills will observe numerous plants usually described as affecting chalky districts, in the southern parts of the kingdom; some that are natives of the highest hills or mountains are abundantly found here. Some plants will be found in great profusion that are of rare occurrence in other localities; others that are found in dry and chalky places are here to be met with in wet or marshy spots, so that the Flora of Southport will be found much more extensive than might have been expected from the monotonous sand by which it is surrounded. Some of those mentioned in t...
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