Plants observed in North Wales. 51 



interesting relic. And it is much to be regretted that they, 

 whose right and business it is to afford it protection, are not 

 at the pains to secure it from wanton spoliation. Boys are 

 permitted to mutilate its venerable limbs, and crop its sable 

 branches, in sheer sport and mischief ; and many considerable 

 boughs, which must have trailed almost on the ground, and 

 greatly heightened the picturesque effect, have lately, it 

 seems, been lopped off, in the true spirit of modern Vandalism. 

 The accompanying woodcut, it is 'proper to add, hasMpeen 

 taken from a drawing made on the/s^ot some years agd^ and 

 made not so much with a view to/llustrate those peculiarities 

 of the tree, which I have endeavoured, however imperfectly, 

 to describe, as merely to afford a picturesque sketch or study 

 fir6fti*flattMfe. irtiJhateutdj regret, therefore, that the cut $oes 

 not square so well with the above account as might be 

 wished ; and the more so, as the tree itself baffles al| s descrip- 

 t^i«)fp*dn|)^i\»|]rbxiilttriirikte the subjet**|uHy; not only 

 crfWings^lf- defca<&ed<jbonliibns of the trunk and limbs on a 

 ]d*getf se'&to atea %amkofthe* 



entire object ; and these, too, taken, perhaps, from somewhat 

 different points of view from the one herd-presented toHthe 

 reader, in which the fault I have chiefly to complain of is, 

 that it represents the tree with far too large a top, and con- 

 sequently gives to the whole an air of greater stateiiness and 

 magnificence than is reallyrtqxbeilfodnd^iaf'the origtnafe ate 

 least in its present conditi©ii#b9dnr9 ban bsqotevns vfotelqmoa 

 3ud ? moJjod scfj jb woilorf htm <b9^BD9b gi t bux 9Vfid I c dri urt 

 auoio^iv sioin 10 AiiO ^uuu i ai^dl I fo rfa odi nidriw raoi 

 fbiw miau nooa ibidw tiataaaib ihmia 1o .anoirioq bariacjab 



so/quid , . . wis g ftiqy uui hur Loow iij5iH»9dt 



Art. X. Brief Notices of the Plants observed during a Tour 



through a Part of North Wales, and some of the adjoining 

 Counties. By William Christy, Jun. Esq. F.L.S. 

 .client lo ■ wpV* °J 'QUJ2oqx9 won 2.L bo&, #0900. j39oqht 



June 4. 1832. After passing through Uxbridge, Clematis 



Vitalba, and the usual plants, of a chalk district, began to 

 make their appearance; but nothing rare occurred till we, 

 were descending Stokenchurch Hill, when we noticed abund- 

 ance of Listera nidus- avis, and £pipactis grandiflora, in the 

 edges of the woods ; and, on a small grassy slope, an O'rchis, 

 which was probably O. militaris. A'troptf Belladonna grows 

 on the chalky banks; and we observed a single and rather 

 large tree of Zilia parvifolia. At Oxford, the heavy rain 

 prevented our botanising, except on the old walls, which were 

 covered with abundance of Senecio squalidus, and a i7iera*« 

 cium not in flower (H. amplexicaufe ?). These plants have 

 probably originally escaped from the botanic garden ; an inter- 



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