Account of a Botanical Tour in North Wales, ^c. 105 



Species dubice. 



8. Strongylus. Cavity of thorax of moor-buzzard (Buteo rufus). 



9. . Trachea of turkey {Meleagris Gallopavo). 



' the gapes.' I have found three specimens, each upwards of half an 

 inch in length, in the trachea of a chicken which died of the gapes 

 a fortnight after being hatched, and was informed that it had mani- 

 fested symptoms of the disease when only five days old. 



In the specimens which I have examined the male portion of the 

 animal (as it has been called) w^as of a paler colour than the other, 

 and no trace of a convoluted tube was visible through its parietes, 

 though very evident in the female portion. 

 [To be continued.] 



XV. — Abstract of a paper entitled " Account of a Botanical Tour 

 in North Wales, the South of England and Jersey, during the 

 months of August and September 1843.^' By R. Graham, M.D., 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh*. 



In this communication the Professor only noticed such plants 

 observed by him as are not natives of Scotland, are scarce 

 there, or which otherwise possess interest from marked pecu- 

 liarities of geographical distribution in the districts which he 

 visited. The journey extended from Liverpool to Chester, and 

 thence by St. Asaph to Bangor. From Bangor the Professor 

 and his party walked up Carnedd Llewellyn, and by the slate 

 quarries of Peurhyn to Llanberris, botanizing in the woods and 

 valleys in the neighbourhood, ascending Snowdon from the west, 

 and passing on to Capel Curig and the DeviFs Kitchen, from 

 which they went by the mail to Birmingham. From Birming- 

 ham Dr. Graham proceeded to Dorsetshire and Jersey. What- 

 ever was noticed regarding the vegetation elsewhere was seen 

 only from the coach, or during the almost momentary stoppages 

 at the stages. On returning from Jersey, a few hours w^ere 

 spent in a very hasty examination of the road-side in a corner of 

 the Isle of Wight. 



The following are the plants seen in the first half of the jour- 

 ney, and not truly wdld in Scotland : — Lactuca muralis, in a little 

 glen a few miles to the w^estward of Chester, and not again 

 observed in the whole journey ; and in the same place, Tamus 

 communis (afterwards found to be very frequent further south) ; 

 Chlora perfoliata, Hehninthia echioides (also profuse near Wey- 

 mouth) ; Diplotaxis tenuifolia, abundant on the walls near Ches- 



• Read before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Dec. 14, 1843- 



