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we found the beautiful Asplenium viride growing sparingly on 

 the rocks ; and a Buzzard was seen several times, soaring 

 high, and only occasionally settling on some mountain peak. 



On a ledge in the rocks overhanging the upper lake of 

 Llanberis some Eed-throated Divers stood motionless, while 

 several were seen constantly diving, and only showing their 

 heads and long necks in the water. Not far from the lakes 

 the rare and curious Elisma nutans grew, with its tuft of 

 quill-like leaves rooting in the mud, and sending up delicate 

 slender stalks, which bear small and shining oval leaves ; 

 these long thread-like stalks, which by curling and twisting 

 always keep the leaves and flowers floating on the surface of 

 the water, seem specially adapted for the often rapid rise and 

 fall of mountain lakes. In the same place we found the little 

 Awlwort {Subidaiia aquatica), which flowers and fruits under 

 water ; and almost everywhere by the shores of the lakes 

 themselves there were dark green tufts of Quillwort [Isoetcs 

 lacustris). 



From the summit of Snowdon another day we went a little 

 way along a ridge of mountains, the Crib Goch spur, and then, 

 by sliding and scrambling, managed to get to the bottom of 

 Cwm Glas. In one of the lakes there the Awlwort was 

 plentiful, and in wet places around grew Selago Selaginoides, 

 with trailing patches of Salix herbncea. On one of the steep 

 sides of the Cwm SaxiJ'raga nivalis grew among masses of 

 other lovely mountain Saxifrages. 



Most of our last day in these parts was spent by the stream 

 in the beautifully wooded valley of Nant-y-M6r. We had a fine 

 view of a pair of Pied Flycatchers. We had next day very 

 reluctantly to leave the mountains, and proceed to scenery of 

 a very different kind. Bodorgan, our next head-quarters, is 

 a primitive little village right in the centre of Anglesea. 

 I must only mention very briefly the most interesting walks 

 we took from here. The neighbourhood of the sand-hills, and 

 grass-covered sand-flats round Llyn Coron, a large lake close 

 to Bodorgan, is a rich one for plants. They stretch to the 

 sea, a few miles distant, and in many places are faintly 

 coloured by a little Centamy, Erythraa littoralis. Mixed with 



