I860.] THIRSJi NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 55 



We were informed that Hypericum Andros(Bmum grows in this 

 alpine dingle ; if this be so, its altitude is estimated at too low a 

 figure ; the side of this mountain is surely more than two hun- 

 dred yards above the coast-line. It is at least as much as that 

 above the level of Llyn Tegid, and the altitude of this pool is 

 surely above a hundred yards, if we may judge by the rapid cur- 

 rent of the river Dee. 



This concludes the present rather extensive rambling article 

 on Welsh botany. In dramatic phraseology, our readers are in- 

 formed that the actors were their ancient favourites, W. P. and 

 A. I.; that the scene was Merionethshire, only impinging here 

 and there on Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire ; the distance 

 traversed in all, a hundred and seventy miles ; the time was from 

 the 20th of June to the 2nd of July inclusive. 



The hospitalities of our Cambro-British friends have been al- 

 ready recorded ; and it is but just to them to state that their 

 communicativeness on all subjects connected with our pursuit 

 was quite disinterested. 



Their urbanity and intelligence contrast favourably with the 

 the experience of our reverend contributor who furnished the 

 Flora of Ville Dunkirk. {See ' Phytologist,' vol. iii. p. 289.) 



All the information they could give about localities was readily 

 afforded, unaccompanied with that troublesome and impertinent 

 inquisitiveness which many of the brotherhood have noticed or 

 complained of in parts nearer home. Our friends in Wales never 

 asked us what we did with our acquisitions, nor why we went a 

 score of miles to look at a plant, or to get a specimen which in 

 their estimation would have been dear at a groat the hundred. 



THIKSK NATURAL HISTOEY SOCIETY. 

 Botanical Exchange Club. 



The December meeting of this Society was held upon the even- 

 ing of Monday, the 5th instant. The receipt of parcels from 

 Misses GifFord and Warren, Messrs. Hebblethwaite, Watson, 

 and Windsor, was announced. 



Proceedings of the Botanical Society of London. — Mr. H. C. 

 Watson has enclosed in his parcel a number of copies of the ' Pro- 

 ceedings of the Botanical Society of London,' vol. i. part i. (the 



