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Yet, fanciful as this hypothesis may be, it 

 may, without hesitation, be admitted, that many 

 of the most valuable additions to our Floras have 

 arisen from this belief in the inexhaustible variety 

 of nature ; and that some latent expectation, 

 springing from the same source, still animates 

 the almost daily researches of a Hooker and a 

 Smith. 



With a similar taste, and desire for discovery, 

 " sed haud passihus acquis,^' I spent a part of 

 July and August, last year, in examining the 

 vegetable productions of Snowdonia ; and found 

 no part of that romantic district so luxuriant in 

 scarce or conmion plants, as the parish of Llan- 

 dudno, in Caernarvonshire. 



This little retired corner of the county, once, 

 as tradition tells us, possessed of many well cul- 

 tivated acres now occupied by the Irish Sea, is 

 composed of a narrow tract of marshy meadow 

 land, bounded on the E. and W. points by 

 the promontories of Pen Bach and Pen Mawr, 

 (the greater and the lesser Orme*s-Head,) and 

 skirted on the S. by Bodscallan and Gloddaeth, 

 the well-wooded estates of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 

 which run down on the southern side to the river 

 Conway, opposite the town and castle. The 

 territory lying between the fine bay of Llandudno 



