42 BOTANICAL SKETCHES FROM NORTH WALES, [^February, 



I made a list of the plants growing near and on Castel Dinas 

 Bran, and this will include the plants of Llangollen, or all that I 

 observed during my short stay in this fashionable place. This 

 list has been already published in the ' Phytologist/ vol. iii. 379. 



The next morning, viz. the 21st June, I left by coach for 

 Corwen, where I met by appointment my friend, W. P., and we 

 walked on to Llandderfel (eight miles), where we arrived in time 

 for dinner. 



On the 22nd we walked up the hill from Llandderfel and along 

 the Bala and Llangyuog road to Pont-y-Beddws, about halfway 

 between these two places. In the bed of a mountain-torrent which 

 crosses the road, which is carried over the glen and stream on a 

 very rustic and picturesque bridge, we botanized an hour or two. 



The results of our botanizing were not very remarkable. Pin- 

 guicula vulgaris is common in all upland boggy places in Wales 

 from 300 feet above the level of the lower streams to 3,000 feet ; 

 also Saxifraga stellaris, not so common, but plentiful in the glen 

 of Pont-y-Beddws. Vaccinium Myrtillus abounds everywhere 

 on heathy parts of the Berwyns, also V. Oxy coccus and V. Viiis- 

 idaa are far from being unfrequent. Lysimachia nemorum and 

 Hypericum pulchrum also abounded in this place. The Ferns 

 were of the commoner species, viz. Pteris aquilina, Atliyrium 

 Filix-fcemina, Lastrea Filix-mas, L. dilatata, L. Oreopteris, Blech- 

 num boreale, etc. etc. On the verge of the road where the bridle- 

 road to Llandderfel joins the Llangynog road, there is plenty of 

 the elegant Wafilenbergia hederacea in a station not likely to be 

 destroyed by modern improvements for some considerable time. 

 It will be long ere the builder makes an inroad on the domain of 

 this beauteous floral gem. 



The same day we searched about an artificial small lake in an 

 upland pasture field near Llandderfel, and collected some mag- 

 nificent examples of Botrychium Lunaria, nearly a foot high, 

 with branching fertile fronds. 



This completed our botanizing on the 22nd. 



The 23rd was spent in looking round and into Llyn Creyny, 

 about three or four miles from Llandderfel. On our way thither, 

 in a field just across the high-road from Corwen to Bala, on the 

 north side of the river Dee, several fine examples of Vicia Orobus 

 were met with ; also on all the pastures Habenaria bifolia was 

 common, and on some elevated moist grassy nooks and corners 



