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Moel-y-Golfa, its black crags towering in my view. Another effort 

 over a stone wall, and through a fir- grove with upstarting rocks, and 

 the top was gained. The sun was just pausing on a height a little to 

 the north of Snowdon. All the intervening landscape was brightly 

 illuminated, and the infant Severn shone like the convolutions of a 

 silver serpent amidst the green meadows below. Ridge appeared 

 beyond ridge as an array of waves bounding indignantly towards a 

 rocky shore, except that it seemed that ere they were solidified a puff 

 of wind had opened a vast longitudinal furrow through their mass, and 

 thus thrown them at that point into curious disorder. A mist hung 

 over Plinlimmon, but the valley up to and beyond Welchpool, with 

 its encompassing hills, had a most beautiful appearance in the chast- 

 ened light. As I stood musing on the scene the sun went down, and 

 gloom at once fell upon the whole country, the clouds contending with 

 each other for the honour of veiling their peculiar hills with the greatest 

 celerity ; and lest the mists should seize me also, I at once dashed 

 down over rocks and gorse-bushes, and threading the thick planta- 

 tions, at last reached the ' Plough and Harrow,' whence I soon 

 departed to rest my tired members within the walls of Welchpool. 



Edwin Lees. 



Cedar Terrace, Henwiclc, Worcester, 

 February 27, 1851. 



Note on Laminaria longicruris. By the Rev. George Harris. 



I BELIEVE this plant has only been lately added to our marine 

 flora. In course of last summer I came upon a specimen of it, 

 stranded on the sea-beach, about a mile and a half to the west 

 of the old church, an erection, by the way, more than eight hun- 

 dred years of age. The specimen was about three yards long, 

 abruptly terminated, as if broken off towards the upper extremity, and 

 of almost equal thickness throughout. The stem was hollow, and in 

 diameter measured seven-sixteenths of an inch. The root was quite 

 entire, and exhibited no mark of having been drifted about. Adhering 

 to the stem at regular intervals were nine or ten beautiful examples of 

 Lepas anatifera. I am happy I can add that Professor Dickie, of 

 Queen's College, Belfast, who has examined the plant, confirms the 

 question of identity. George Harris. 



Manse of Gamrie, Banffshire, 

 Fchiuary 25, 1851. 



