30 LOCALITIES OF RARER BRITISH PLANTS = 
Dolgelly is repeated and enlarged by Mr. Wyndham in his Tour 
in Monmouth and Wales in 1774 and 1775, as follows :—* Dol- 
gelly is fortified with walls six miles high (Dr. Fuller says three) ; 
we came into it under water, and out of it over water; there are 
more ale-houses than houses in it, etc.”” This whimsical deserip- 
tion is ascribed to the ludicrous fancy of an author whose writings 
on the subject are quoted under the title of ‘Torbuck’s Collec- 
tion of Welsh Travels.’ 
But if the town in itself affords little interest, except to those 
who take an interest in flannel or Welsh webs (these are not syn- 
onyms), its neighbourhood will amply repay a sojourn here in 
the summer or autumnal months. Independently of Cader Idris, 
which is within an easy walk of the town, there are the roads to 
Towyn, Barmouth, and to the falls on the Mawddach and Cain, 
which supply objects attractive to all tourists. 
We will now resume our botanical notices. In the afternoon 
of one of the finest days we spent in Wales a stroll by Nannau 
Park was taken, especially to see an unrecorded locality for Impa- 
tiens Noli-me-tangere. ‘The plant was by a roadside, under the 
shade and drip of some trees, but there were no traces of it within 
the fence. It is recorded by J. E. Bowman, and quoted in the 
New Botanist’s Guide as growing on the estuary of the Maw- 
ddach in this neighbourhood. Another Welsh station is recorded 
in the New Botanist’s Guide, Merionethshire, between Dolgelly 
and Erwgoed Chapel, about a mile from the latter. Mr. Bingley 
records it in Montgomeryshire. In this neighbourhood a va- 
riety of Ginanthe crocata, without yellow juice, was gathered, and 
with the appearance of Apiwm graveolens, for which it might be 
mistaken by the uninitiated. It is probably the Ci; apiifolia of 
continental authors. Geranium lucidum, Epilobium roseum, Hy- 
pericum Androsemum, Asperula vdorata, Mi atricaria Partheniun, 
Lactuca muralis, Nepeta Cataria, Sium latifolium, Orchis latifolia 
and maculata, were observed in July. Prunus Cerasus, P. Avi- 
um, Pyrus Malus, and P. communis are not uncommon in woods 
or hedges. Rumewx sanguineus was noticed near the bridge. We 
walked up one of the nearest spurs of Cader Idris early next 
morning, but the high wind and driving rain made the walk 
rather uncomfortable. Stachys Reon abounded on the dry 
woody places, and Myrica Gale, Narthecium ossifragum, and 
other common plants, on the boggy parts. 
