Weihaiwei, Jan. 10.—1t is more than six weeks since any appreciable snow has fallen here, and the oldest inhabitant is casting his eyes skywards, murmuring something about times not being what they used to be, and the ruination of the winter wheat. But even so I am still able to find little patches of frozen snow in folds of the hills where the winter sun is unable to enter, and in one of these, I found a clump of Sea Lavender which had escaped the fuel gatherer's all-embracing rake. This "everlasting flower" keeps its shape and colour when dried in the autumn and, although it is so familiar, I have been puzzled to find its correct name: there are several common names for it and its kind such as, Marsh Rosemary, Thrift and Sea Pink, while it is also known as Limonium and said to be of the genus.while a learned ox sas botanist describes it as a "Plumbaginaceous
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