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MONTGOMERYSHIRE NOTES. 

 By William Whitwell, F.L.S. 



I HAVE during 1895 received specimens of the following plants 

 from my correspondent Miss E. Jones, of Montgomery, which have 

 not hitherto been recorded for Montgomeryshire : — b'umaria vfjici-- 

 tialis. Weed in garden. — TrifuUum Iiybridum. Churchstoke Road. — 

 Adoxa Moschatdlina. Kerry Road. ^y4/)m/« nodijiorwn. Near Stalloe. 

 — Conius sangumea. Ciim'chstoke Road. — Galiinn vcrum. Road past 

 the Castle. — Calystegia sepiimi and IScropIndana Balhisii. Way up to 

 the Castle. — iMimukis luteus. Stalloe Cottages brook; apparently 

 established. — Urtica urens and Hordeum murinuin. Castle grounds. 



Finding, on examination of Tup. But., ed. 2, so many usually 

 common species "wanting" for this county, I was led to look 

 through my own collections and note-books with special reference 

 to these. Duriug the years 1862-1869 I frequently botanized in 

 North Montgomeryshire, and I can vouch for the existence at that 

 period of the following plants : — Scolopendrium vuhjare. Guilsfield ; 

 1862.— Lrtsfmt Oreopteris. The Garfawr, Guilsfield ; 1862.— Po/(/- 

 stichumangiilnre. The Rallt, near Welshpool; 1862. These three ferns 

 were sent to me by Mr. A. F. Field, then of Guilsfield. L. Oreopteris 

 was plentiful on hills near Llanfyllin. — Folypodium Robertianum. 

 On the sides of a disused mine-shaft on the upper portion of 

 Llanymyuech Hill, not far from the well-known " Ogo " Cave; 

 Aug. 2nd, 1861. A. F. Field had met with a manuscript note in 

 a book in a library at Welshpool stating that this fern grew on 

 Llanymynech Hill. We devoted a long afternoon to a search for 

 it, seemingly fruitless, until I proposed as a last chance to examine 

 the abandoned mine- shafts, and on the sides of one of these I soon 

 found it m some plenty, just within reach of my arm. We met 

 with it in tlie one shaft only. The fronds were small, smaller than 

 ordmary 1'. Dryopteris. In 1865 I saw it still there, but a few 

 years later it had disappeared, as well as a solitary plant which had 

 for some time been known on a bridge near Oswestry : exterminated, 

 I was told, by a Shropshire "florist." 



The subsequent notes are of species all collected or observed by 

 myself: — \^aponaria officinalis. River-side below bridge, Llan- 

 santffraid-yn-Mechain ; 1864. Plentiful a little higher up the 

 stream, in the mill-grounds, and no doubt originally from the 

 garden there, but thoroughly established. — Cheiranthus Cheiri. 

 Plentiful on Montgomery Castle ruins in 1868 ; the true yellow- 

 petalled " wild" form. Miss Jones reports it still there. — Malva 

 rotundi/olia. Llansantfl"raid-yn-Mecliain ; about 1866. — Krodium 

 cicatarium. Just below Rodney's Pillar, on the Breidden Hill ; 

 1866. — Trifiiliuin arvense. Railway-side, near Llansantfl'raid-yn- 

 Mechain; 1867. — Valeriana dioica. Top of Allt-y-gader (1000 ft.), 

 near Llanfyllin ; 1866. — Tragopogon pratensis (var. not noted). 

 Mount Pleasant, near Llanfyllin ; 1866. — Epipactis latifulia (true 

 latifolia I am certain). Llandrinio ; 1865. 



Meconopsis camhrica Vig. South side of Pistill Rhaidr; 1864. 

 The south side is in Denbigh. This is named in Tup, But. for 



