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being very wet and stormy, we did not alight at the. Menai 

 Bridge; and I thus missed gathering i?6sa Wilsonz,. and se- 

 veral other plants, to which I had directions from Mr. Wilson. 

 The road from the Menai Bridge to Beaumaris is extremely 

 beautiful. It follows the shore of the Menai Strait, which is 

 wooded to the water's edge. The woods were filled with 

 ^icia sylvatica, while the rocks which overhung the road were 

 fringed with Geranium sanguineum and i?ubia peregrina. ; On 

 the sandy shore at Beaumaris we gathered jfri-folium suffo- 

 catum and Sagina maritima? We returned by way of the 

 Menai Bridge to Bangor, and thence to Conway. The wea- 

 ther continued so exceedingly stormy, that we were unable to 

 botanise on the Penmaen Maur, over which our road lay. 

 The only plants which which we noticed were Statice Armeria 

 and Silene maritima, which latter, occurring in large patches 

 i pn the, dark rocks, had a very brilliant appearance. , . 



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 beautiful ruins of Conway Castle, on which, with other 



phylium. We then proceeded, by a very winding and bad 

 road, to the Great Ormes Head. On the sandy shore of 

 Llandudno Bay, between the Great and Little Ormes Head, 

 we noticed C'rambe maritima, , Glaucium luteum, and *Sc£Lla 

 verna ; the t;wo former in abundance, but were unable to find 

 -Lithospermum maritimum, which is recorded as growing 

 there. 2?6sa spinosissima, in the dwarfest state we, had ever 

 seen it, covered the sand-hills. On reaching the village of 

 Llandudno, the weather, which had previously been fine, 

 though cloudy, became very wet, and the , heavy and con- 

 tinued rain entirely confined the rest of the party to the 

 little inn at which we stopped. I was, however, too anxious 

 to gather Cotoneaster vulgaris to be detained by the weather; 

 and accordingly set off, accompanied by a guide who could 

 speak no English, but who, the landlady assured me, knew 

 both the plant and its places of growth. Following a steep 

 narrow road up the hill above the village, we reached 

 some copper mines overhung by a range of limestone preci- 

 pices. On these rocks the Cotoneaster grows abundantly, 

 but, owing to being continually browsed on by the sheep, it is 

 very dwarfj and, probably from the same cause 5 appears seldom 

 to flower. Sir J. E. Smith, who, by the by, has committed 

 various errors in his English Flora relative to the period of 

 . the flowering of various plants, mentions July for the Coto- 

 neaster; whereas the few fertile specimens I found bore fruit 

 considerably advanced. Mr. Wilson mentions May, which 



certainly agrees better with the state in which I found the 



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