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Conway druggist in former years, but the demand for it was not so 

 great now. 



Orobanche Hederce ? On a patch of ivy midway up an inacces- 

 sible cliff on the north side of the Head, I observed some tall speci- 

 mens of an Orobanche very conspicuous, certainly this or O. minor ; 

 but though I summoned the garrison, and both Phillips and myself 

 cannonaded the fort from above and below, not without risk to our- 

 selves, it was all in vain. We indeed disabled a few prominent indi- 

 viduals, but could make no prisoners. A friend, however, showed 

 me from Conway Castle what appered to be O. barbata of E. B. S., 

 and now considered by Babington the same as O. Hederse, and this 

 was most probably the plant among the ivy on the cliff. This same 

 barbata I have gathered from among ivy on St. Catherine's Isle, 

 Tenby, and (however the nomenclature may be at last) it occurs ge- 

 nerally throughout North and South Wales and Monmouthshire, es- 

 pecially among ivied ruins. The list in the ' Guide ' mentions O. 

 minor (?) as growing on the ruins of Conway, Diganwy and Marl. 



Digitalis purpurea. I mention this to remark the partiality some 

 plants evince to certain soils, and their repugnance to others. Not a 

 specimen of Digitalis appeared anywhere on the limestone hills or 

 about their bases ; but when I began to ascend the trappoid rock of 

 Diganwy, there at once appeared my old friend, reminding me of its 

 similar position on the sides of the eruptive Malvern Hills. 



Veronica spicata. On the Orme's Head sparingly, but especially 

 plentiful on the limestone ridges extending from the Little Orme's 

 Head to beyond Bodscallan, opposite Conway, including Cadir-y- 

 nain and Bryn Maelgwyn. A portion of these heights is included 

 within Mr. Mostyn's Park, and thus protected is " intensely blue " 

 with the Veronica. 



Salvia verbenaca. Rather numerous on the declivities about Llan- 

 dudno. 



Origanum vulgare. Abundant everywhere on the limestone. 



Calamintha officinalis. On dry banks about the Lower Mine. 



Scutellaria galericulata. In Conway Marsh. 



Marrubium vulgare. On the dry declivities of Great and Little 

 Orme's Head. 



Verbena officinalis. Another of those dogged plants that can 

 hardly be said to be wild at all, so closely do they stick to the skirts 

 of mankind, as if determined to be domesticated. This has druidical 

 fame, and here it still stops on the slopes below the stone of power. 

 But it is yet valued medicinally, and 1 possess a pamphlet detailing 



