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now changing into lilac, that even night seems unable to dispel. But I have 

 raised my eyes for a moment to mark that low ranging Buzzard who seems 

 to have just captured a young Rabbit — and all the glorious tints are gone. So 

 over the young Severn and through the silent timber-hutted streets of Llanidloes, 

 and beneath its low-tumbling town-hall, to my quarters at the Throttle-puppy 

 Arms.* In Wales, certainly, " Arms" are ever open to take in the stranger, 

 and the cry of " Arms" is for ever in his ear ! From the child to the dotard, all 

 are presumed to be in " Arms," and certainly extortion places " arms" in all 

 hands, from the urchin who runs after every carriage crying " penny," to the 

 matured ewmry who thinks the Sasenach gold hardly pays his important services 

 in leading the stranger to a rock or waterfall, that but for the stranger he himself 

 would have never regarded. The fact is, after all, whether one travels with 

 *' arms" or without them, in the desert or turnpike-road, tribute must be paid — 

 and it is all the same whether one hands out to the Arab or the inn-keeper. 

 Here, boots, send the chamber-maid, and call me up at five precisely, for to-mor- 

 row sees me in the clouds with Plinlimmon ! 



LIST OF FLOWERING PLANTS FOR EVERY MONTH IN THE 



YEAR. 



April. 



(Continued from page 140.) 

 Tuberous Moschatell, Adoxa mosckatellina ; Yellow Bugle, or Ground-pine, 

 Ajuga chammpitys ; Common Alder, Alnus glutinosa ; Mountain Anemone, Ane- 

 mone Apennina ; Wood Anemone, A. nemorosa ; Pasque-flower Anemone, A. 

 Pulsatilla ; Common Wall-cress, Arabis thaliana ; German Madwort, Asperugo 

 procumbens; Maidenhair Spleenwort, Asplenium trichomanes ; Early Winter- 

 cress, Barbarea prcecox; Common Daisy, Bellis perennis ; Common Birch, 

 Betula Alba ; Common Turnip, Brassica rapa ; Common Box-tree, Buxus 

 sempervirens ; Vernal Water-starwort, Callitriche verna ; Bitter Ladies'-smock, 

 Cardamine amara ; Hairy Ladies'-smock, C. hirsuta ; Meadow Ladies'-smock, 

 C.pratensis ; Round-headed Carex (or Sedge), Carex pilulifera ; Vernal Carex, 

 C.prsecox; Great Common Carex, C. riparia ; Glaucous Straight-leaved Carex, 

 C. stricta ; Loose Pendulous Carex, C. strigosa; Little Mouse-ear Chickweed, 



* Among the thousand-and-one " Arms " spread in every direction to catch the poor wandering 

 Saesnach in the Principality, I noticed " Vulcan's Arms" at Aberystwith, though I should feel 

 dubious of trusting myself within their brawny grasp ! 

 VOL. III. — NO. XIX. 2 D 



