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Silene noctiflora.—"Flowers opening in the night, sweet-scented in the summer, not so in the autumn."
Withering's Botany.
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"Just trickling thro' a deep and hollow gill."
Gill is a word understood in many parts of England, and more particularly in the North, to mean an hollow watercourse, or an hollow overshadowed with coppice and brush wood, such as frequently occur in hilly countries. It has the same meaning as Gully, a deep trench in the earth, so frequent in the West Indies,
