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Art. LVII. — A List of Plants met with in the neighbourhood of 



Swansea, Glamorganshire. By J. W. G. Gutch, Esq. 



(Concluded from p. 145). 



Arum maculatum. Common. 



Acorus Calamus. Near Britton Ferry, (Mr. Player). 



Typha latifolia and angustifolia. Cromlyn Bog, in abundance and great luxuriance. 



Sparganium ramosum and simplex. Near Singleton and Neath. 



natans. Cromlyn Bog and Singleton Marsh, in the old Red-jacket Canal. 



Potamogeton pusillus and crispus. Neath Canal. 



heterophi/llus and natans. Cromlyn Bog. 



Ruppia maritima. In the Neath Canal. 



Triglochin maritimum and palustre. Cromlyn Bog and Loughor Marsh. 



Alisma Plantago. Ditches and marsh near Singleton. 



natans. Cromlyn Bog and near Singleton. 



— '—— ranunculoides. Sketty Bog; ditches near Singleton; Cromlyn Bog. Formerly 

 plentiful on the boggy parts of Sketty Burrows, which are now enclosed ; and 

 found by Mr. Moggridge in Tennant's Canal, near Coed-y-allt, (Dillwyn). 

 Iris Pseudacorus. Common on all the marshy ground near Swansea, Mumbles road 



and Cromlyn Bog. 

 — fcetidissima. At Gelly Evan, near Penllergare, where the Spanish Iris xiphioides 

 has continued to flourish with it for more than thirty years at least. Iris fceti- 

 dissima also grows in Gower, (Dillwyn). 

 Spiranthes autumnalis. On the Town Hill and Mumbles. 

 Neottia Nidus-avis. In a small wood near Pontardawe, (Dillwyn); and in woods about 



Pont nedd Vechn, Ystradgunlais and Penrice. 

 Ophrys apifera. On the lawn and in the wood of Penrice Castle, (Dillwyn). 

 Asparagus officinalis. Near Loughor, and also on Worms Head and the coast near. 

 Meadows between Cowbridge and the sea, about Cardiff, and at Singleton. In 

 Martyn's edition of Miller's 'Gardener's Dictionary' it is denied that the "spar- 

 row-grass " of our gardens is the same species ; and it would be interesting to 

 ascertain whether the young shoots of the wild plant possess the same flavour, 

 and the effect of removing them to a richer soil. 

 Allium vineale. Common near Port Tennant. 

 Scilla verna. On the lime-stone hill between the Mumbles and the light-house ; on 



the Worms Head and other places in Gower, plentifully. 

 Paris quadrifolia. In the woods about Britton Ferry and near Kilvay Bridge, in Ni- 

 cholston wood and other woods in Gower. It not unfrequently occurs with five 

 leaves; and the Rev. G. E. Smith, in his Catalogue of the Phsenogamous Plants 

 of South Kent, says that the flower then frequently follows the quinary division, 

 presenting five sepals, five petals, ten stamens, five styles and a five-celled capsule. 

 About Devon I have frequently found the plant with six, and sometimes with 

 seven leaves, and have never observed any variation from the usual quaternary 

 arrangement of the flowers, (Dillwyn). 

 Tamus communis. Near Singleton. 

 Butomus umbellatus. Cromlyn Bog and Neath Canal. 

 Juncus acutus. Neath Canal, and sand hills of Cromlyn Bog and Newton Nottage. 



