2 NOTES ON THE FLORA OF DENBIGHSHIRE 



Denbigh — may be regarded as having an area of approximately 

 680 square miles. 



Since deciding some two years ago to extend the scope of my 

 Flintshire investigations with a view to the preparation of a joint 

 flora of Flint and Denbigh, I find I have in no way over-estimated 

 the difficulty of such undertaking. Substantial progress has 

 been made however. In addition to field work, much time has 

 been devoted to bringing together and systematically collating 

 the widely scattered material existing in various publications and 

 herbaria. 



The list of Denbighshire plants which follows will to some 

 extent fill the gap to which I have previously alluded, pending the 

 completion of the Flora. It may be regarded as fairly represen- 

 tative of the less common Phanerogamia and Pteridophyta. I 

 have also included all species which are not already recorded for 

 v.-c. 50 in Topographical Botany or in Mr. Bennett's Sitjjplement; 

 these are indicated by an asterisk. The list only represents a 

 small proportion of the material which has accumulated. I have 

 omitted the commoner plants and book records, except certain 

 notices which have appeared in local publications that might 

 easily be overlooked. 



Many records to which the name of P. Inchbald is appended 

 originally appeared in Williams's His.tory and Antiquities of the 

 Toivn of Aberconwy (1835); Inchbald is also responsible for the 

 much fuller list which appeared in 1861 in Parry's Llandudno, its 

 History and Natural History (ed. i. 1855). The chapter on the 

 local flora in the latter work bears the unfortunate sub-heading 

 "Eare Plants," and I have little doubt that this has contributed 

 to the gradual extermination of Cotoneaster and certain other 

 uncommon species. Two sources have also been drawn upon for 

 records credited to John Price — Old Price's Bemams (1864) and 

 Llandudno and Hoiu to Enjoy it ; the latter bears no date, but 

 seems to have been published some time between 1875 and 1880. 

 The Beviains, a somewhat eccentric production, contain a few 

 scattered references to Denbigh plants, but the chief source of 

 Price's records is his later work. Both Inchbald and Price 

 appear to have confined themselves to the littoral portion of the 

 county, and their records chiefly refer to the Creuddyn Peninsula. 



In 1865 the Oswestry and Welshpool Naturalists' Field Club 

 published their first and only Eeport {Os^o, F. C). This was 

 edited by the Eev. W. Walsham How, M.A. — subsequently better 

 known as the Bishop of Wakefield — and contains notices of 

 various plants observed at field meetings during the years 1857- 

 1864. Mr. How is chiefly responsible for the botanical portion of 

 this work, to which he also contributed (pp. 61-63) a paper on 

 the flora of the Great Orme's Head. To the Poivysland Cluh 

 Collections, Historical and Archceological, relating to Montgomery- 

 shire and its Borders (vols, iv.-vi., viii.), an account of the parish 

 of Llanrhaiadr-yn-Mochnant is contributed by Thomas W. Han- 

 cock. Vol. iv. (1871, pp. 223-225) contains an account of the 

 flora of the parish, in which stations are given for a number of 



