62 Alexander Goodman More. [1354 



anxiously and vainly sought at the Twl Du chasm. " We 

 met with Thalictrum alpinum and Arabis petraea both 

 plentiful, and ... a large patch of brilliant green which 

 proved to be Cochlearia grcenlandica. Proceeding . . . 

 we climbed a shady recess of the rock ; and the guide soon 

 pointed out two or three little grassy blades pendant from 

 the fissures where one would think they had scarce enough 

 soil to grow upon. This was the great prize, and we soon 

 unearthed two or three of the little bulbs sheathed in their 

 brown spath, and with each two or three narrow, bright, 

 yellow leaves, now quite withered, but still sufEcient to 

 show it was the right plant." 



Having been to the top of the mountain, where the 

 cold was intense, and gathered the little willow, Salix 

 herbacea, " we went after the Woodsia hyperborea, which 

 has two localities " on the mountain ; and, at last, " the 

 guide after a most close and careful inspection pronounced 

 a miserable little bit of green seedling-looking stuff to be 

 the real thing ; but so diminutive was it that he several 

 times took a seedling of Cystopteris for the same. It seems 

 Lonchitis (holly fern) used to grow here ; but from the 

 locality being betrayed, Williams now crops the whole of 

 the full-sized fronds (of Woodsia) so as to conceal the plant 

 as much as possible, and for the same reason he has 

 eradicated the Lonchitis/' 



" The other spot " was also visited. " Here used to be 

 lots of Woodsia, and I could still see the little bits of 

 burnt-up fronds shooting out of the crevices, but with no 

 real appearance of Woodsia. It cannot be too much 

 regretted that the fear of its extermination should have 

 led to this result, since no botanist can now hope to see 

 this curious plant in perfection, and probably a continual 

 system of cropping may result in its destruction in these 

 localities. There are three more on Clogwyn y Garnedd, I 

 hope more inaccessible ; and these, with one above Llyn y 

 Cwn for ilvensis, are, I believe, all. . . . Hymenophyllum 

 tunbrigense was a seventh plant to my list of novelties as 

 the result of this excursion, which for the time of year was 

 wonderfully successful. The only disagreeable impression 

 it left was regret at the rapacity of tourists, who, with no 



