By Thomas Bruges Flower, F.R.C.S., F.L.S., 8fc. 75 



part of the hill, I found a Lichenastrum, with round silvery, densely 

 fibrous shoots, not described,i which I saw afterwards upon the 

 Glyder ; and a very elegant Mtiscus coraUoides, facie coralince 

 marinoR^ growing' out of the slate rocks. This I did not observe 

 on Snowdon. Between Carnarvon and Dolgelle, amongst ferns in 

 heathy ground, I found a very elegant upright Vetch, with pointed 

 glaucous leaves, pods like those of the Lentil, growing many to- 

 gether on a long stalk, no tendrils. I had no time, nor would the 

 rain permit me, to look after the root, whether it were that of an 

 Orobus, but the leaves do not agree with the 0. si/lvaticus nostras.^ 

 " Here, as well as in other parts of Wales, along the banks of 

 rivers, grow two'Salices, one with a sage-like rugged leaf,* the other 

 with an obtuse, somewhat glaucous, leaf, neque compacto, neque 

 laxiore, sed medio J' which I take to be different from all the rest of 

 the English Willows. The weather being so bad, we resolved to go 

 to Carnarvon, and to spend some time there and in the island of 

 Anglesea, till it should settle fair, before we visited Snowdon. lu 

 the Carnarvon river which runs down from Llanberis, I met with 

 the seeds of Subularia repens, folio minus rigido.^ It has a naked 

 seed, contained in a calyx cut into four segments. There is never 

 more than one seed upon each little stalk or pedicle. Along the 

 leaves come out, here and there, small horns beset with four or five 

 marginal teeth, which may probably contain a dust, like the apices 

 (or anthers) of perfect flowers, I was too late to ascertain this with 

 certainty. The Subularia rigida ^ are of a quite different character. 



' Jtmgermannia julacea. 



2 Lichen fragilis, Linn., Sp. PI. 1621. 



^ This could scarcely be anything else than O. sylvaticnts. 



* Perhaps Salix cinerea. 



' Possibly 8. Lamhertiana, Fl. Brit., 1041. 



* Dill., in Rail Sgn., 306. Nothing is more certain than that this plant is 



Littorella lacustris, mentioned as a Flantago in the same work, 316, n. 11. 



Whether insects caused the appearances described by Dillenius, and exhibited in 



in his Hist. Muse, t. 81, we can but conjecture. They seem to have been found 



only once. 



^ These are the Isoetes. 



