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after ascending the mountain, and were both killed 

 upon the spot. The plant for which I had thus 

 endangered existence, proved after all to be only Si- 

 lene maritima, one of those coast plants which like the 

 Sea Pink (Statice Armeria), and the Scurvy-grass, are 

 found growing as well upon lofty mountain rocks as 

 upon the sea shore. In descending the Yan I found, 

 however, beautiful specimens of Saxifraga liypnoides 

 and Lycopodiwm alpinum. 



Thus the exploring Botanical Looker-out does in 

 fact wander with the mist and the zephyr, and in his re- 

 searches outdoes the flower-loving bee itself. How oft 

 have we been led thus to wander on heathy hills and 

 cloud-capt summits, roaming with the devious stream, 

 lost in verdant thickets, or immersed in the spray of 

 roaring water-falls. How oft have the glens of Wales 

 received us, and charmed our wayward footsteps. 

 Several times have we explored the beauteous recesses 

 of Grlyn Neath, when thickets of roses embowered 

 our path, their petals of that deep red which renders 

 the Welch roses so eminently beautiful; or amidst 

 tall rank plants of JEnanfhe crocata, stood by the 

 cascade of Melincourt, thoughtful and happy. Above 

 our heads a black sullen trunk with leafless arms 

 stood spectre-like on the rock, and the patter of the 

 water as it splashed and fell amidst enormous boul- 

 ders dashed a cloud of rime on all the trees around.* 

 This was my first visit to the falls about the valley, 

 when being alone, and finding out the localities with 

 difficulty, in getting on by Pont Nedd Vechan to the 

 cataract of Scwd-Inon-G-am, or the Crooked Fall, I 



At this picturesque waterfall the pretty filmy-fern Hymendphyllum 

 Tunbridgense grows, and other rare plants may be found in the vicinity. 

 Somewhere in Glyn Neath I gathered Potcntilla alpestris. 



