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called Kenfig Pool, which used to be celebrated for its pike, and 

 which also contained a multitude of roach, serving as food for the 

 pike, but whence of late years both pike and roach have disappeared 

 without any apparent cause. I found nothing in the pool, but my 

 friend Mr. Moggeridge has sent me lately some fragments of a Pota- 

 mogeton, which, from the appearance of its seeds, I suspect, may be 

 P. trichodes, at least they seem different from those of any acknow- 

 ledged British species. In a moist hollow in this pool, growing on 

 the sand with Erythraea pulchella and Centunculus minimus, there 

 was a considerable quantity of what, from the description, appears to 

 be the Myosotis multiflora of De Candolle. All the specimens I at 

 first gathered seemed to be strictly annual, but on returning to the 

 spot, I found in many plants traces of a descending rhizoma, and a 

 second bundle of radical fibres, indicating the plant to be, sometimes 

 at least, biennial. I suspect it to be a variety of M. palustris, with- 

 out, however, relinquishing my opinion that it is the M. multiflora of 

 the ' Prodromus.' 



On a large limestone hill, near Pyle, called Newton Down, there is 

 a great abundance of Ulex Gallii. There it keeps itself distinct from 

 U. nanus by its habit ; but about Monmouth intermediate states may 

 be seen. The wings are very nearly equal to the keel in length'; in 

 individual flowers sometimes a very little longer (perhaps thirtieth or for- 

 tieth of an inch), when flattened against it, but this was not the usual case, 

 and in the natural state the curve of the wings makes them appear 

 shorter. Before the parts are fully expanded, the point of the keel 

 sometimes does and sometimes does not project above the wings. In 

 returning homewards, I examined the U. nanus, on the heaths about 

 Farnborough, where the plants are smaller and slenderer than any I 

 had seen in Monmouthshire ; but the heaths there are periodically 

 pared for fuel, and neither heath nor furze can grow to any size. In 

 these also I should have described wings and keel as of equal length, 

 but the former are now and then a very little shorter ; they are always, 

 however, narrower than the keel, which, before their full expansion, 

 projects sometimes above and sometimes below them. On Ashdown 

 Forest the wings are sometimes a little longer than the keel. Both 

 U. nanus and U. Gallii have frequently flowers near the ends of the 

 branches, as described in U. strictus, but their usual position in both 

 is near the base of the primary spines, and never, as in U. europams, 

 scattered more than half along their length, or on the secondary 

 spines. 



I add the position of a few plants which have not yet found their 



