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Autumnal Gentian, Gentiana amarella. 



English Clary, Salvia verbenaca. 



Hoary dwarf Rock-rose, Helianthemwn canum. 



Marjoram, Origanum vulgare. 



Lady's finger, Anthyllis vulneraria. 



Welch Golden-rod, Solidago Cambrica. 

 Taking in the whole promontory a very long list 

 might be enumerated. I did not at this first visit 

 meet with the Cotoneaster vulgaris, well known as an 

 inhabitant of the cliffs of the Ormeshead, its only 

 known location in Britain, for being alone, and scaling 

 the wildest and most desolate-looking rocks, evening 

 found me among them involved in gloom. At a sub- 

 sequent time the plant was pointed out to me. It 

 grows indeed almost in the last place a stranger might 

 expect on a limestone ledge descending in easy steps 

 just behind a farm house called Tau-y-Coed, some dis- 

 tance above Llandudno village, but looking inland ; 

 the summit may be between 400 and 500 feet high, 

 but the western part of the head is higher. The easy 

 descent of this ledge causes numerous shrubs to grow 

 there, as privet, holly, spindle-tree, and even much 

 hazel. There is some quantity of the Cotoneaster^ 

 though growing dwarf out of the cracks of the rock. 

 It has ripe fruit in August, and then many of the 

 leaves are beautifully tinged with scarlet. The lime- 

 stone ledge, whose escarpment now faces inland, yet 

 appears as if at no distant period it had been a great 

 bird rock, washed by waves that have now retired 

 from its base. An instance of the changes that may 

 occur in the vegetable aspect of a district, is observ* 

 able on the Ormeshead, now almost entirely denuded 

 of foliage, and covered with broken masses of time- 

 worn stones. But clumps of verdant Juniper appear 



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