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on many of the rocks to the very summit westward, 

 though now procumbent on the limestone, the bois- 

 terous gales not permitting its upward growth. Yet 

 as most of the roots are large, and of great age, it is 

 easy to imagine that the now " white pow" of the 

 promontory had in earlier times a more verdant if not 

 grove-like aspect. The original upright junipers have 

 evidently been cut down at some former period, 

 though when scattered in verdant masses, as in druid- 

 ical times, must have rendered the upper stories and 

 stone circles nestled on the cliffs far more sheltered 

 places of observation than they are at present. In- 

 deed on a curious isolated hill near Gloddaeth, called 

 Cadir-y-Nain, or " my Grandmother's Chair," some 

 upright clumps of Juniper still remain rising to a con- 

 siderable height. Yet so completely were the woods 

 that once clothed Anglesea destroyed, that when 

 DAVIES published his Welch Botanology, describing 

 the plants of that island, in 1813, he could then find 

 no Juniper at all there, and he only says, " I venture 

 this as once an inhabitant, from the name of a place, 

 Cefn-y-Terywen, the juniper bank." 



Besides the Great Orme's Head and its attendant 

 minor prominences, many other calcareous heights 

 may be mentioned as favourite botanical localities. 

 Box Hill, in Surrey, famous for its box groves, nurses 

 also various uncommon OrcJiidice, and the very rare 

 cut-leaved annual Germander (Teucrium Botrys). 

 Numerous local species are also found on the chalky 

 cliffs in the vicinity of Dover, and other parts of our 

 south-east coast. Brean Downs, in Somerset, and St. 

 Yincent's rocks, near Bristol, have been long noted 

 in botanical story for their many rarities, as well as 



