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thick, erect peduncles, a capsule five-cleft, fully twice as long as the 

 calyx, and a compact habit of growth. Though in saxatilis the plant 

 is densely matted, yet few or none of the very slender peduncles are 

 erect. S. saxatilis, moreover, covers the ground in dry, exposed 

 places with a little carpet, while S. nivalis forms small solitary tufts 

 in the courses of the mountain streams, judging by the position in 

 which our specimen was found. Should any botanist visit that part 

 of Scotland next season, a little time devoted to a search for this ap- 

 parent novelty might not be unrewarded. 



James Backhouse, Jun. 

 York, December 13, 1849. 



Notes on the more interesting Flowering Plattts gathered in North 

 Wales, in September, 1849. By Alfred W. Bennett, Esq. 



Although it was late in the season when we started on our trip 

 into Wales, and our attention was more particularly directed to the 

 ferns, we met with many interesting flowering plants, some of them 

 new to us, who have had but few opportunities of botanizing in moun- 

 tain districts, of which I send a few notes, if thought worthy of record. 



About half way between Builth and Rhayader the beautiful little 

 Wahlenbergia hederacea was first observed in patches by the road- 

 side, and afterwards, where the road opens out on to a common, we 

 found it creeping among the grass and low herbage in the greatest 

 profusion. Hypericum elodes is also abundant. Epipactis latifolia 

 almost lines the road-side in several places. In the ditches before 

 coming to Llangurig we first noticed a white-flowered Ranunculus, 

 but nearly past flower, without capillary leaves, which struck us at 

 once as somewhat different in habit and appearance from R. aquatilis, 

 and it proves on examination to be the newly separated R. Lenormandi. 

 It was afterwards found more abundantly in several localities in the 

 sub-alpine districts all round Plinlimmon. The meadows and banks 

 in the same district were profusely ornamented with Viola lutea, of 

 every variety of colour, from entirely yellow to dark purple. 



On hedge-banks and in damp places near Machynlleth, the Wah- 

 lenbergia was again extremely abundant ; and Cotyledon umbilicus 

 was almost everywhere on the walls. On the highest part of the road 

 between Machynlleth and Dolgelly we had much pleasure in observ- 

 ing Spiraea salicifolia in a hedge, exceedingly fine and handsome ; 



