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N.E. side, rising to a considerable height. Davies could find no ju- 

 niper in Anglesea when his Catalogue of the plants of that island was 

 published in 1813, and he only says " I venture this as once an inha- 

 bitant, from the name of a place, Cefn-y-Terywen, the juniper bank." 



Tamus communis. At Bodscallan, near Eglwys Rhos, but by no 

 means of common occurrence in North Wales. 



Orchis pyramidalis. In Gloddaeth Wood, among bushes within 

 Mr. Mostyn's grounds, not far from the statue of Hercules. 



Spiranthes autumnalis. Quite profuse in the moist sand edging 

 the inland marshes at Barmouth, loading the morning air with fra- 

 grance. 



Epipactis ovalis, Bab. In crevices of the limestone rocks above 

 Tydraw, on the Orme's Head, southward of the Cotoneaster ledges ; 

 also under similar circumstances in the cracks of "my Grandmother's 

 Chair," near Gloddaeth. Some of the plants were hardly more than 

 four inches in height, and many scorched and abortive from their pe- 

 culiarly exposed position on the bare rocks, but rooting very deeply, 

 and the withered stems of former years still remaining. Stem, ger- 

 men and bases of the bracts excessively scaly. 



I must here close my list, as I was rather too late in the summer to 

 be able to attend much to the grasses, and merely remarked that 

 Triodia decumbens formed a great portion of the turf on the declivities 

 of the Head, while Avena pubescens appeared on almost every rock. 

 I observed Arundo Epigejos, too, very abundant and fine in Glodda- 

 eth Woods. Of ferns, except Asplenium Trichomanes and A. Ruta- 

 muraria, I really saw none on the Orme's Head, and the only Equise- 

 tum that occurred was E. palustre, ft. polystachion, growing among 

 masses of Rubus caesius on the Conway sands. 



If in the above enumeration I have duplicated observations already 

 made, or noticed plants of frequent occcurrence or supposed to be so, 

 that the rarity-hunting botanist would pass with disdain, still I hope 

 that in so remote a corner, which in general botanists only dash across 

 in their summer cometic career, the mention of what I saw growing 

 at the time I was there in residence may not be quite useless. In- 

 deed, it appears to me that a periodical report of the present existence 

 of plants in a remarkable locality, like the peninsula of the Great 

 Orme's Head, is advantageous in a referential point of view. Could 

 my record be compared with one made a century ago, I doubt not 

 that some plants would be found to have disappeared, and some in 

 my list would appear as new inhabitants. Hence trustworthy record 

 of plants within allotted bounds and seen at particular periods, must 



