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beautiful Cyclamen, in full flower about the middle of May. 

 Near Aquapendente, the Honeysuckles that hung on the ever- 

 green Oaks and other trees by the roadside (which harboured 

 numbers of nightingales), dispensed their sweets in abundance. 

 They seemed to be of the early, sweet-scented kind. Near Flo- 

 rence we saw the yellow Spring Aconite, and also the Soldier 

 Orchis of Parkinson, the same, I mean, which grows in Darent 

 woods, near Dartford, in Kent. 



"April 1770. — Observed the Trago Orchis, growing close to the 

 Pont du Gard, in Languedoc ; and in June we also saw it in 

 full flower among the privet-bushes about one mile from Al- 

 bano, near Rome. In May, found a most curious crimson bulb- 

 ous-rooted Orchis near Lake Aguano, at Naples.* 



'•' At Valdagno, under the Alps, a few miles north of Vicenza and 

 Verona, where we resided some weeks, I found, about one mile 

 from the town, on the left-hand, in the road to Recoara, about 

 the middle of July, 1770, a very elegant kind of Bee Orchis, 

 with a yellowish lip, and crossed ])y a zone of a still deeper colour, 

 with white wings, at the ends a little tinged with purple, Ophrys 

 scolopax? This beautiful plant, notwithstanding the advanced 

 season of the year, was in full bloom. I also met with it in 

 another place, nearer to the town, not far from the cross, grow- 

 ing upon the dry green banks, above which in many places the 

 rock shows itself. The broad-leaved Man Orchis I also saw 

 the seed-vessel of; and a kind of yellow or orange-coloured Lily 

 grew among the bushes, a little higher than the cross." 



Z. 



Eew, July 1861. 



A brief Notice of William Williams, Botanical Guide to 

 Llanberis, Snowdon, Twll Ddu, etc. 



The untimely and melancholy fate of the late W. Williams, 

 of the Victoria Hotel, Llanberis, has been lately noticed in our 

 pages, and must be still fresh in the recollection of our readers. 

 The following statements have been communicated to us by the 



* " The roots of this fine plant, wliicli are sent over from thence, liave continued 

 to flourish in England for many years."— (M.C.) 



