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rock, being easily reducible to soil, forms an ex- 

 cellent and a varied habitation for vegetables, 

 and, accordingly, I anticipated, at first sight, as 

 well from the quality of the rocks themselves, as 

 from the varied appearance of the w^hole district, 

 that not a few of the more showy specimens 

 might be found here. 



The following catalogue is the result of a care- 

 ful examination of this spot, during two succes- 

 sive visits ; some of the names being added from 

 a catalogue kindly furnished me by Mr. Wilson, 

 of Warrington.* 



In the classification, those plants are omitted 

 which are common to almost every piece of un- 

 cultivated ground, although there was no defi- 

 ciency of them, even amidst the profusion of the 

 rarer species. 



Class I.— MONANDRJA. 

 Salicomia herbacea, marsh sampire, is not pro- 

 perly a native of Llandudno, being found most 

 abundant on the opposite shore of the Conway. 

 A stray specimen or two may be seen near 

 Diganwy. 



* A few names are copied from a Catalogue in the Magazine of 

 Natural History, l)y Mr. Winch. 



