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of 1000 ft. a Flora of a great many new plauts commences, 

 and, in addition to these, which are common to mountains, 

 there are the true alpine or arctic plants, — relics of an old 

 Flora, — of which there are over 200 British species. It was 

 therefore with the expectation of having a rich botanical time 

 that we set out in June last for a visit to the neighbourhood 

 of Snowdon and the island of Anglesea, N. Wales. 



On the evening of our arrival at Bangor we called on Mr. 

 J. E. Griffiths, who possesses an unrivalled knowledge of 

 Welsh botanj', and to whom Mr. Arthur Bennett had very 

 kindly given us an introduction. He advised us to visit Holy 

 Island, off Anglesea, as soon as possible, to be in time for the 

 flowering of two very rare plants, Senecio spatlndmfolius, and a 

 Rock-rose {Helianthemum Breiceri). On our way to the coast 

 from Holyhead station we noticed Fnmaria confttsa, plentiful 

 as a weed in cultivated ground, and Ranunculus heteropliyllus, 

 a Water Crowfoot, covering a pond with its white flowers. 



On arriving at the sea-clififs we found, covering their face, 

 an abundance of Portland Spurge, while the turf above was 

 largely composed of Scilla verna, the bright blue Vernal Squill. 

 We kept to the coast, which is extremely rugged, for some 

 miles, coming across a few plants of a hybrid Violet, V. inter- 

 media, H. C. Wats., until, in a grandly picturesque cove, we 

 first saw the Senecio, just in the prime of flowering. It is a 

 strange fact that although the seed of this plant, adapted by 

 its pappus for wind-carriage, must be often borne inland, it 

 has never been found here away from the sea, and this is all 

 the more curious since its only other British station, Mickle 

 Fell, Yorkshire, is many miles from the coast. The Senecio 

 occurred at several places on the cliff's between this cove and 

 the South Stack Lighthouse, together with large patches of 

 the beautiful Geranium, sanguineum, and Golden Samphire. 

 Near the South Stack Lighthouse grew the lovely Rock-rose 

 [Helianthemum Breiceri), a small plant with five bright yellow 

 petals, each with a deep red spot at its base. The flowers 

 last but one day, falling soon after noon, or directly on being 

 touched, and the peduncle then gradually falls down, and 

 forms a right angle with that of the flower that opens next. 



