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turn, and which might well agree with dubium as described ; but after 

 attentive examination I could trace no permanent distinction. Both 

 had the stem with a membranous border, here and there dotted with 

 black from the glandular matter within it ; both had the upper leaves 

 and sepals " with a few pellucid dots," and both had their petals 

 streaked with pellucid glandular lines, much blackened or scorched 

 beneath : the sepals, too, of both had pellucid streaks at their base. 

 The " minutely denticulate " sepals, relied on by Babington as a dis- 

 tinctive character for maculatum, arises merely from the membranous 

 border being occasionally broken in outline, and though this is not 

 so obvious in the smaller mountain form, a lens shows the same cha- 

 racter more or less obviously. Babington describes the sepals as "re- 

 flexed " in both plants, but I find them always patent in flower, and 

 very loosely or carelessly reflex even in fruit. 



Hypericum montanum. On the shrubby part of the Orme's Head, 

 and at Bryn Maelgwyn. 



Geranium sanguineum. A conspicuous feature of the Orme's Head 

 flora, and beautifying all the adjacent limestone hills till late in Sep- 

 tember. 



— columbinum. Rather plentiful on the stony declivities. 



Erodium maritimum. On stone walls about Gloddaeth, and in a 

 lane leading from the beach to Cadir-y-Nain, or " My Grandmother's 

 Chair," an isolated limestone hill east of the Little Orme's Head, 

 crowned with stone fragments like the base of a tower. 



Linum usitatissimum. An instance of immigration. Apparently 

 wild among stones on the beach, but I afterwards met with a flax- 

 field at Eglws Rhos. 



Rhamnus catharticus. In Gloddaeth Woods. 



Medicago lupulina. A small variety of this, the pods, leaves and 

 stem covered with very long hairs, occurred on the turf near Llan- 

 dudno Bay. 



Trifolium medium. On the turf of the Head. 



Anthyllis Vulneraria. True, as usual, to the limestone; especially 

 numerous at Bryn Maelgwyn. 



Spircea Filipendula. Abundant on the turf of the rocks, but very 

 dwarf. 



Potentilla verna. In crevices of the same ledge where the Coto- 

 neaster grows. 



Prunus Cerasus. In a hedge on the south side of Bryn Gosol, and 

 between Conway and Llanrwst : perhaps planted by birds. 



Potentilla Tormentilla, /3. procumbens (Tormentilla reptans, Linn.) 



