76 d Biographical Notice of Samuel Brewer, the Botanist. 



for they bear at the bottom of their leaves, within, numerous seeds, 

 like those of a Poppy in shape and size, which you may find, I 

 believe, in your dried specimens, if you cut them in a sloping 

 direction, just above the tuberous root. Some leaves contain 

 nothino- but dust, like what is in the head of a Moss. I know- 

 not whether this be unripe seeds, or a fecundating powder. It 

 appears at the same time with the seeds formed. Anglesea is in 

 its soil very like England, and except some marine plants, has no 

 great variety or diversity. Ischium marinum ^ does not grow near 

 Trefarthen ; but we found it afterwards plentifully by LlyfFny river, 

 where we went in search of it three or four miles before we got to 

 the place mentioned (Clynog). Pneumonanthe of Cordus- grows 

 plentifully on some boggy commons in Anglesea. In a wood I 

 found Fungi digitelli of Parkinson, never seen by me before ; and a 

 new Agaricus globostis anthracinus, destitute of either pores or gills.^ 

 Two new Sea mosses over against Prestholm island, where we found 

 also in plenty, Chamafilix tiiarina anglica.* In a small river that 

 runs out of a pond near Squire Bayly's I observed a Spongia 

 fluviatilis, a soft unbranched, very elegant species of a bright green; 

 and a Potamogeton with oblong flat leaves, the lower ones alternate, 

 the upper opposite; Plantago marina, the same with that found in 

 Durdham, having thinner and more carinated leaves,^ a variety of 

 the maritime one, grows all over the inland part of the island [of 

 Anglesea.] Odontites^ with a white flower, in some pastures. At 

 Llandwyn, near Newborough, besides other marine plants, grows 

 the Chamafilix marina (above-mentioned) ; Thalictrmn minus ; 

 Ononis mariiima procumle^is^ &c., of Plukenet; Vulneraria flare 



* Pulmonaria maritima. 



2 Gentiana Pneumonanthe. 



^ Sj>heeria maxima. 



* Asplenium marinum. 



« P. maritima, ^. Fl. Brit., 184. 



* Bartnia Odontites. 



"> Ononis arvensis, 7 Fl. Brit., 758. 



