NOTICED IN NORTH WALES. 7 
land. We will not, in this place, vindicate their nativity; we 
have seen the plants in question growing where they were neither 
sown nor planted, at least by human agency. About half a mile 
from the town, on both sides of the road, but especially on the 
left side, we saw many tufts or clusters of Colchicum autumnale 
(Meadow Saffron). This plant is more common in the west of 
England than anywhere else, yet it is recorded as found in Suf- 
folk. We believe, from our observation, that if a meridional 
line were drawn through the centre of England, cutting Oxford- 
shire, Warwickshire, and Yorkshire, ete., more stations of Col- 
chicum autumnale will be found on the western side of the line 
than on the eastern. We have seen it in great plenty m Glou- 
cestershire, between the Severn and the Wye. We observed 
Papaver dubium, Chelidonium majus, Chenopodium Bonus-Henri- 
cus, and Corydalis claviculata, before we reached the confines of 
Montgomeryshire, where we entered North Wales. Here, as 
we believed, on the very line separating the two ancient king- 
doms,—for in the British and Anglo-Saxon times they formed two 
kingdoms, as they now are inhabited by two distinct races,—we 
observed a gigantic Clematis attached to a shrub (Alder ?), which 
it, the Clematis, very much exceeded both in diameter and height. 
We have seen on the Surrey hills, especially where the stem sank 
down through the brambles by which it was originally supported, 
some stems of considerable thickness, viz. a few inches; but this 
solitary one observed in Wales was at least five or six inches in 
diameter and nearly erect. Myr. Pamplin remarks that it is very 
rare in Wales. We only noticed this one, and we believe, as it 
was close to a house, that it had been originally planted there. 
It is not recorded by Bingley, at least not in his catalogue of the 
more uncommon Welsh plants. We noticed it on account of its 
rarity, and especially because of its monstrous size. Mr. Bingley 
does not appear to have seen the Common Meadow Saffron, which 
we saw in abundance. He however records the appearance of 
Anchusa sempervirens amongst the ruins of Basingwerk Abbey, 
near Holywell, Flint. Will any of our readers be so kind as to 
tell us if it still grows there? We baited at Llansanfraid, nine 
or ten miles from Oswestry, and then started for Meivod along 
the beautiful vale of that name. The country through which we 
had hitherto passed, possessed no very remarkable. features as 
distinct from a genuine English landscape, but towards Meivod 
