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as truly savage as any of those who are now termed so.
Page 30. Line 10.
"Will from among the fescue bring him flowers—"
The grass called Sheep's Fescue, (Festuca ovina,) clothes these Downs with the softest turf.
"some resembling bees
In velvet vest intent on their sweet toil—"
Ophrys apifera, Bee Ophrys, or Orchis, found plentifully on the hills, as well as the next.
Line 13.
"While others mimic flies, that lightly sport—"
Ophrys muscifera.—Fly Orchis. Linnæus, misled by the variations to which some of this tribe are really subject, has perhaps too rashly esteemed all
