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the wood had been cut down. And here we first came upon Rubia 

 peregrina, scrambling in the thickest places, over almost every bush. 

 It was past flower and covered with its berries in these lower parts of 

 the river ; but about some rocks higher up, we afterwards found it in 

 full flower. Here, too, was Hippocrepis comosa, a rare plant in this 

 district. The captain of our party, William H. Purchas, of Ross, had 

 likewise the good fortune to light upon Carex montana, though but 

 sparingly; the second locality in which he has found it, and the third 

 only at present authenticated. It is here, as in the Wyndcliff woods, 

 accompanied by C. digitata. The latter plant occurs in the steep 

 woods on the other side of the river at the foot of Symon's Yat, and 

 he has often searched for the former in that spot, expecting some day 

 to find it, from the similarity to the Wyndcliff station. Its discovery 

 on this occasion was an agreeable surprise, but it will very probably 

 turn up in many other localities. 



We now directed our course to the Little Doward, so named, 

 though scarcely inferior to its elder brother, and more conspicuous in 

 position. It is crowned by a spiral observatory, forming a landmark 

 for the country round. One object of our excursion was Lactuca vi- 

 rosa, which we had been informed had lately been found here. After 

 some steep climbing, nearly in the direction of a new stone wall, 

 which has been run very needlessly in the eyes of a botanist in such 

 a rough and little frequented portion of the country, from the very 

 summit of the hill to the river's brink, by way of a recent inclosure of 

 the Little Doward, we came to a large, rough quarry about half way 

 up the hill. We had noticed Artemisia Absinthium among the loose 

 rubbish cast out in constructing this wall. From a point overlooking 

 the quarry, W. H. Purchas espied on a ledge a plant too distant to 

 make out, with branches ascending, not accessible from above, and 

 somewhat difficultly from below. On going round, and mounting 

 steadily from ledge to ledge, the lightest of our party soon got at it, 

 and returned in triumph, dragging a magnificent specimen of the said 

 Lactuca, measuring very nearly eight feet from the root-leaves to the 

 extremity of the corymbose head. We sat down to carve up the 

 mammoth into manageable portions for the various botany-boxes, 

 unanimously agreeing that the perfect specimen, if brought home, 

 was too large for any Bentall that has yet been manufactured. We 

 afterwards found plenty of plants of smaller and more portable pre- 

 tensions ; and observed that it was abundantly self-sown, higher up 

 about the rocks. 



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