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And I will now add that the late Mr. Sole makes a memorandum 

 in his MSS. Flora, dated 1782, that he found the Asarabacca in the 

 Duke of Queensborough's woods,* near Amesbury, and should the 

 plant be still growing in this locality, which I hope to verify for my- 

 self this spring, I think it will go far towards the probability of its 

 being indigenous in this county. 



T. B. Flower. 



Seend, Melksham, Wilts, 

 March 28, 1850. 



On the Botanical Features of the Great Orme's Head; with Notices 

 of some Plants observed in other parts of North Wales during 

 the Summer of 1849. By Edwin Lees, Esq., F.L.S. 



Mr. A. W. Bennett having recently contributed some " Notes on 

 the more interesting Flowering Plants gathered in North Wales 1 ' dur- 

 ing a trip in 1849, it may be convenient for me to add a few which 

 that gentleman has not noticed in his tour. We appear to have gone 

 over nearly the same ground, and like cometary wanderers, must, I 

 think, have crossed each other's orbit, if not actually come in contact 

 at some point between Caernarvon and Barmouth. But according to 

 the leaning of botanists towards certain favourite genera, influencing 

 in some degree the spots they look out for, so will be the plants they 

 come in contact with. Mr. Bennett seems to have sought commu- 

 nion with the ferns, and I pushed among the bramble-bushes, seeking 

 instead of avoiding thorns; not perhaps the wisest course in this 

 world, since, walk carefully as one may, some symbolical bramble may 

 catch one's coat at a corner, a more irritable detention than that of a 

 button-holder ! But leaving the enumeration of the Welsh Rubi to 

 a more convenient season, I will just put myself down at Conway, 

 where a tremendously rainy evening found me at the latter end of 

 July last year. 



Strolling into a bookseller's shop after securing quarters at the 

 Harp, (which, by the bye, better deserved the name of Harpy), I 

 found a ' Tourist's Guide to the romantic beauties, &c, of the rising 

 and fashionable Watering-places of Llandudno and Great Orme's 

 Head,' which, strangely enough, was to be given away. I snapped 

 at this gratuitous bait, but soon perceived that the pretended "guide" 



* Now called the Duke of Queensberry's woods. 



