4 NOTES ON THE FLORA OP DENBIGHSHIRE 



afore-mentioned title ; they include a number of references to 

 Denbighshire plants, mainly in connection with accounts of field 

 club excursions. Caution is necessary in utilizing information 

 from this source, more especially in regard to plants reported as 

 having been found on excursions of the OfTa Field Club : thus in 

 the volume for 1898 (p. 338) a notice appears of an excursion to 

 Overton-on-Dee and Erbistock, in which it is stated that quite a 

 number of plants of Primula farinosa were seen in full bloom 

 along the roadsides and river-banks ! That this is no accidental 

 Icqjsus plumcz is evident from the graphic description which the 

 writer gives of the colouring of the blossoms. 



I am indebted to Mr. W. Whitwell for a copy of a booklet 

 entitled The Flora of Ostvestry, which contains a number of Den- 

 bighshire records, and was compiled by a former Secretary (a Mr. 

 Diamond) of the Offa Field Club ; some records in this are open 

 to doubt. Mr. Whitwell writes {in lit.) : — " One of Mr. Diamond's 

 [Shropshire] entries struck me as most improbable [Bubus 

 Chavicemorus for Selattyn Hill, near Oswestry). This hill is not 

 more than 1000 ft. high, and the plant has never been recorded 

 before. Mr. Diamond admitted that the soui'ce of the entry was 

 a report of a club meeting, and that was based on the assertion 

 of somebody that he had seen the Cloud Berry on the hill." 



In 1896 there was issued a Report of the Boyal Commission on 

 Land in Wales and Monmouthshire, and the Secretary (Mr. D. 

 Lleufer Thomas) has inserted an antiquated and practically useless 

 list of plants said to occur in the Principality. A further list is 

 contributed by the Eev. 0. M. Fielden, M.A., but this contains no 

 original Denbighshire records. In an Appendix to this Keport, 

 which was issued as a Parliamentary Paper in the same year, 

 there is a useful historical account and bibliography (pp. 140-144) 

 of the Flora of Wales. This was in great part the work of Mr. 

 Bi'itten, whose assistance Mr. Thomas entirely ignored ; it is re- 

 printed in this Journal for 1898. 



Many records of Denbighshire plants are contained in various 

 herbaria. The collections of Miss E. Potts {Hh. Potts) and the 

 Eev. J. Harris {Hb. Harris), two former Chester b)otanists, are 

 now in the possession of the Chester Society of Natural Science. 

 Miss Potts's herbarium is contained in ten large volumes, and 

 includes a number of Denbigh and Flint plants. Most of these 

 appear to have been collected between 1830 and 1860. The Harris 

 collection is also rich in Denbigh records, mainly from Llandrillo- 

 yn-Ehos, Eossett, and Gresford. The herbarium {Hb. Jones) formed 

 by Miss E. Foulkes Jones (Chester), formerly of Llansilin, has 

 been carefully examined by Mr. Whitwell, who has kindly supplied 

 me with a list of all the included Denbigh records ; these are 

 mainly for the Llansilin neighbourhood. The collection of the 

 late Eobert Brown {Hb. Broion), now at the Liverpool Museum, 

 contains a few Denbigh plants. By the courtesy of Mr. E. H. 

 Day (Cwm) and Mr. C. Waterfall (Chester) I have been able to 

 inspect their respective herbaria {Hb. Day, Hb. W.), which have 

 afforded useful information. The collections formed by John 



