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way into the ' Botanist's Guide.' Aconitum Napellus, is, as I am told 

 by Mr. Mr. Moggeridge, abundant on some bushy ground near Llan- 

 brissant. Senebiera pinnatifida is found about most of the sea ports. 

 Cardamine impatiens and Dipsacus pilosus are not uncommon along 

 the Wye. Brassica oleracea, without a seed in the beak, is plentiful 

 on the marl cliffs of Barry Island. Diplotaxis muralis is common 

 about Swansea. Erucastrum monense at Nicholaston,in Gower. This 

 was found by Mr. Borrer also at Merthyr. When Dillwyn's ' Bota- 

 nist's Guide' was first published, Matthiola sinuata used to be found 

 in several places among the sand-hills of the shore. Afterwards it 

 disappeared. Two or three years ago it again showed itself, but has 

 again disappeared. The corporation of Swansea, it seems, sometimes 

 take turf from the sand-hills and replace the soil with some they want 

 to get rid of from the neighbourhood of the town, and in these spots 

 I noticed Calendula officinalis, Koniga maritima, Delphinium cousolida, 

 a cultivated Pimpinella, and other garden plants. This could hardly 

 be the origin of the Matthiola ; but I suspect that it has produced the 

 D. cousolida, noticed by Mr. Lees, at least T neither saw nor heard of 

 the plant except in such situations. A more curious instance of inci- 

 pient naturalization was exhibited a few years ago in the Yucca glo- 

 riosa, a root of which was cast on the shore of Cromlyn burrows. It 

 established itself there, sending out suckers, and for some years 

 seemed quite disposed to be permanent, till a storm buried it under 

 a heap of shingle. Sagina maritima grows at Porth Cawl. Althaea 

 officinalis in Barry Island. Lavatera arborea, is I am assured, wild in 

 two places on the coast of Gower. Hypericum dubium is common 

 among the hills both in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire. I see Mr. 

 Bennet considers the plant he found on the Wye to be H. maculatum ; 

 mine seemed to be the common form of H. dubuim, without any ap- 

 proximation to the characters of H. quadrangulum. Hypericum mon- 

 tanum in woods on the Wye. I observed a single plant of Melilotus 

 arveusis in a clover field at Sully. Rosa systyla occurs in Gower. 

 CEnothera biennis in Barry Island. Sedum sexangulare was found by 

 Mr. Motley at Bwlch Afen, a name I do not find in the map, but it 

 is stated to be in the upper part of the valley of the Glamorgan Avon. 

 It has since been sought for in vain. Carum verticillatum is frequent 

 in boggy meadows about Swansea and Neath, and as this has long 

 been well known, I wonder how it escaped from the first ' Botanist's 

 Guide.' Galium tricorne grows in Barry Island. Inula Helenium in se- 

 veral places in Gower and about Sully. Veronica Buxbaumii I saw at 

 Lavernock, a very out-of-the-way place for a stranger. Mentha ro- 



