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fury. Pistill Cayne at once leaped the cliff that oft it 

 only veils, and the great Mawdach Tall hid all its 

 rocks with a flood red with indignation, and sweeping 

 as a hurricane. The waters were all alive that day, 

 and the woods were stunned by crashing torrents. 



In descending Snowdon to Llanberis, I paused at a 

 bushy place in Cwm Brwynog, not far from the water- 

 fall of Caunant Mawr, whose voice sounded loudly in 

 the stillness of evening. Here was a fine thicket of 

 brambles, among which I observed the lofty Eulus 

 pyramidalis of Babington, whose long panicle has a 

 very remarkable appearance. Many other curious 

 brambles are observable about Llanberis, as jK. incur- 

 vatus, Bab., It. Linclleianus, R. affinis, &c. ; and pros- 

 trate among stones, on the banks of the torrent, I 

 observed the rare mountain bramble It. lentiginosus, 

 which I have described in Steele's Handbook of Bri- 

 tish, Botany. This is a very prickly bramble, but has 

 a suberect habit and growth, though the numerous 

 sharp serratures of the leaves distinguish it at sight 

 from the usual forms of jR. plicatus or suberecttis, the 

 latter of which is of common occurrence in Snow- 

 donia, and it is more slender than those species. It 

 seems to bear some relationship to R. affinis, but its 

 elliptical leaflets and racemose panicle gives it a very 

 different aspect to that bramble, and the panicle also 

 is much more hairy. I would compare it among the 

 suberect group to E. Guntheri in the glandulose, the 

 flowers being in general small, and the whole plant 

 weak even in the best developed specimens ; yet the 

 stem is so prickly and the points of the prickles so 

 sharp and attenuated, that it is one of the most lacer- 

 ating among the Rubi. It seems a subalpine bramble, 



