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in a County Herbarium now being formed as a companion to the flora; and will 
contribute to render it a collection worthy of the county, and it is hoped really 
useful as a help to future students of our native plants. 
I begin then with a few rarities, which deserve mention as interesting addi- 
tions to the county flora, but which once mentioned may be dismissed as not 
needing further investigation. 
Meconopsis Cambrica (Welsh Poppy) can now be assigned an undoubted 
place as a native plant on our extreme western limits. It grows in the Llanthony 
valley in mountain cliffs at an altitude of from 1,600 to 1,800 feet, in a spot where 
it cannot well be other than native : and I have now the satisfaction of being able 
to include the spot where it grows in the Herefordshire flora. It is close upon the 
Breconshire boundary; still it is within the limit of the Monmouthshire part of 
the Llanthony valley. A curious point connected with this plant is its occurrence 
in the parallel Grwyne valley, some three or four miles distant from the undoubt- 
edly native locality, upon rocks and walls by the river side. Had it occurred 
solely in such situations, one would naturally assume it to be an escape from culti- 
vation in cottage gardens—as is the case so commonly with this plant all through 
the English Lake district. But considering that it is indubitably native in the 
same range of hills, and adding the fact that it does not make any appearance in 
gardens either of the few inhabited or the numerous deserted cottages of this 
valley, I think its claims to be considered native in the Grwyne valley may be at 
least admitted, until shown to be in error. 
I notice next two Orchidaceous plants which are interesting as additions 
in the same quarter to the county flora. 
One is the rarer of the two Marsh Orchises, O incarnata. This had been 
recorded before for Salop (first on Leighton’s authority, and confirmed in the cur- 
rent number of the Journal of Botany) ; but it is decidedly a scarce plant as com- 
pared with the more common Marsh Orchis, its census-number in the London 
Catalogue of British Plants, Ed. 7, being 18 as against 80 of the other. It was 
therefore with pleasure that I found it growing plentifully in a marsh at the 
bottom of the Grwyne valley, distinguishable at a glance from the more common 
one by its light pink flowers. The other Orchid is a still more unexpected addi- 
tion to our flora, being Habenaria albida ; a plant of distinctly northern procli- 
vities, Merioneth and Cardigan being the nearest counties to our own mentioned 
by Watson in his Topographical Botany, and—with the single exception of the 
isolated county of East Sussex—its most southern limit in Great Britain. Its 
occurrence therefore within our boundaries is a considerable addition to its range. 
I had the pleasure of coming upon a single meadow in the Grwyne valley last year 
in which it was growing in abundance—40 or 50 specimens to be seen in full flower 
within so many yards. 
Still remaining in the same valley, I have next to introduce you to another 
northern plant, though not so exclusively northern as the last. This is Geranium 
sylvaticum. The history of the find of this plant in the county is curious. Some 
ten years back, a scrap of it was brought back from this valley by a lady friend of 
mine. She thought it the common G. pratense, and had only picked it for its 
