BRITISH PLANTS NOTICED IN NORTH WALES. 29 
afterwards saw very fine Hippuris vulgaris by the side of the 
railway near Tiverton junction. Some of the rarer of these 
plants I have forwarded to the Phytological Club ; first, for selec- 
tion for the Central Herbarium, and the remnant for distribution 
among any of our members who may require them. 
An account of Localities of some of the rarer British Plants 
and others noticed in North Wales by Mr. Pampxin and Mr. 
Irvine, tn September, 1854. 
(Continued from page 12.) 
We reached Dolgelly on the 15th, early enough to view the 
town, which is more interesting at a distance than when viewed 
in proximity to the spectator. Though there be some good 
buildings, the town does not improve on a better acquaintance. 
Seen from the old Machynlleth road as soon as the road affords 
a view ot it, it looks rather imposing, situated as it is in a broad 
and fertile vale, well watered with beautiful rivers which rise in the 
Arran chain, and between two small streams which issue from 
Cader Idris, and surrounded with lofty, and on the west, south, 
and north with well-wooded, hills. 
Before commencing our botanical notices, we beg to subjoin 
Dr. T. Fuller’s quaint and enigmatical account of Dolgelly :— 
“1. The walls thereof are three miles high (the mountains which sur- 
round it). 
2. Men go into it over the water (on a fair bridge), but 
3. Go out of it under water (under a stream which turned. an overshot 
mull). 
4. The steeple thereof doth grow therein (the bells hang in a yew-tree). 
5. There are more ale-houses than houses (tenements were divided into 
several tippling houses, and barns were used for that purpose).” * 
Fames crescit eundo, the ancient classical adage, or ‘a story 
seldom loses anything in the telling,” is well exemplified by the 
state of Dolgelly: like a snowball rolled on melting snow, it soon 
doubles its original size. Dolgelly may have doubled, but its 
absurdities have not, though in description they have been ex- 
panded or amplified. Dr. Thomas Fuller’s comical description of 
* See Fuller’s ‘Worthies of Wales: Merionethshire.’ 
