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fully scarlet. This cliff, almost hemmed in by cultivation and flanked 

 by houses, looks so tame when compared with other parts of the 

 Orme's Head, that I had neglected it, and hunted over the northern 

 and western precipices in vain. Returning, however, one morning 

 from the Little Orme's Head, carelessly dangling some plants in my 

 hand, a man rather seedily attired, though respectable in look, ac- 

 costed me, and taking me, he presumed, for a botanist, asked me if I 

 had found the Cotoneaster ; as I had not, he volunteered his guidance, 

 which I of course accepted. Besides the ledge of limestone men- 

 tioned above, he took me to another, where the plant grew, but this 

 was also close to the back of a cottage, the cliff indeed bounding the 

 cottage garden. I only state the fact, without making any inference, 

 but it struck me that birds had probably many years ago planted the 

 Cotoneaster on these rocks by transporting their berries. The late 

 Mr. Griffiths, it appears, first gathered the plant here in 1783, but 

 did not name it, which was left for Mr. Wilson, of Warrington, to^ do 

 many years after. 



I can recommend Phillips, the person who took me to the locality 

 of the Cotoneaster, as a very good guide ai..> where in the vicinity of 

 Llandudno, and, poor fellow, he needs a little countenance from visi- 

 tors in a place where anyone connected with the healing art has lit- 

 tle chance either to live or die. Phillips has been a chemist, but is 

 now a cattle-doctor, and also waits upon a surgeon who once a week 

 comes over from Conway to see patients, should there luckily be any; 

 and it is Phillips's business " if any's sick and like to die," to keep 

 life in them until the doctor's hebdomadal visit comes round ! 



T ought in candour to remark that the ' Tourist's Guide,' adverted 

 to as baited with botanists and ornithologists enough to pay for build- 

 ing an hotel at Llandudno, contained a list of " rare plants," — rather 

 a new feature in a bill of sale, though I should hardly think got up 

 by the Liverpool auctioneer who was to sell the embryo crescent. 

 Perhaps some local herbalist was called in, whose researches I found 

 useful, as directing me to local points, though many of his names were 

 errroneous, and therefore though refering to his list when he mentions 

 an additionol locality, I shall not record what I did not myself see. 



Thalictrum minus. Very plentiful and luxuriant among broken 

 limestone in numerous spots. 



Ranunculus Lenormandi. Near Barmouth, on the Harlech road. 



Papaver dubium. Abundant about Llandudno on waste spots, but 

 no other poppy. 



Glaucium luteum. Very profuse upon the shore of the bay. 



