61 

 THREE DAYS IN CAERNARVONSHIRE. 



BY J. H. DA VIES, ESQ. 



A Paper read before the Thirsk Natural History Society. 



(Contimied from page A2.) 



A SHORT distance beyond Cwm y glo, a pond literally covered with the 

 beautiful flowers of the White Water Lily, (Nymphcea alba,) gladdened our 

 eyes. During the last five minutes we had been wondering from whence the 

 delicious perfume arose, which we had been enjoying, and here the enigma 

 was solved. Nor were the banks of the pool without their special attrac- 

 tions in Campylopus longipilus, Trichostomuvi flexicauli, Hypnum cordifolium, 

 several species of Sphagnum, and various other aquatic mosses. A short 

 distance from the pool we gathered Splachnum ampuUaceum, a species which, 

 to be properly appreciated, should be seen in its natural condition. At this 

 point some wild and mountainous scenery commences. Climbing Pen y llyn 

 we had a magnificent view of Llyn Padarn, the glassy surface of which 

 was glistening in the sun — a perfect picture of sublimity and grandeur. 

 Nor was our climb up the hill side without its advantages in a bryological 

 point of view, for we were so fortunate as to collect SpJiagnum molluscum 

 in fruit, intermixed with barren 8. squamosum, fruitful specimens of Hypnum 

 fluitans, Aulocomnion palustre, (Bryum, Hed.,) and Leucohryum glaucum,^ 

 {pieracium, Hed.) Descending tie hill we observed a few fronds of Botry- 

 chium lunaria, (Moon-wortj) on the rocks at the commencement of Llyn 

 Padarn, Bartramia arcuata, Ptycliomitrium polypTiyllum, and two or three 

 species of Racomitrium occur in considerable quantities, and Fontinalis 

 antipyretica floats in the water. On the opposite side of the road we col- 

 lected another species of my favourite genus, Bartramia fontana, in beautiful 

 fruit, and with three flowers; and very near it we found a species also with 

 ^ flowers, which at the time I supposed was B. calcarea, and I left 

 the locality under the impression that I had put some specimens in my 

 vasculum, but on reaching home was disappointed in finding such was not 

 the case. The author of the '^Bryologia Britannica" informs me that this 

 species has not been noticed within the limits of the principality, although 

 he has found it in Cheshire, so that it is likely I may be mistaken, but 

 think it worth while to make this note on the chance that some of my 

 readers may sooner or later have an opportunity of investigating the 

 locality. We found nothing of importance between this place and Dolbadan, 

 which we reached about noon. 



Having fixed upon spending the night here, we arranged matters at the 



• My collection contaias fertile specimens of this species from my obliging correspondent, 

 Edward Parfitt, Esq., of Exeter; and I have seen others gathered, by Edward Hobson, in 

 the herbai'ium of my friend John H. Baker. 



