marl-face

Updated: May 19, 2025

The lesser plants are the small willow-herbs, whose late blossoms are almost carmine, the water-mints, with mauve-grey flowers, and the comfrey, both purple and white. The dewberry, a blue-coloured more luscious bramble fruit, and tiny wild roses, grow on the marl-face also.

C. J. (Charles John) Cornish - The Naturalist on the Thames