56 BRITISH PLANTS NOTICED IN NORTH WALES. 
sides; and also Trollius europeus in grassy moist places. Bangor 
was reached in time for the one o’clock up-train, and we took our 
places to Aber, intending to walk the rest of the way to Conway. 
The shore was on our left, and the mountains on our right hand. 
At Aber and Lilanfair, and all the way along the coast to Penmaen- 
mawr, we observed Lavatera arborea in most of the cottage gar- 
dens, and one solitary seedling-plant by the roadside. The sea- 
shore abounded with Eryngium maritimum and Euphorbia Paralas. 
After passing through the village of Penmaen-mawr we left 
the new road and took the mountain way over the lesser Pen- 
maen, and reached Conway, wet and weary, between six and seven 
o'clock in the evening, after a very fatiguing but interesting walk 
of above twenty miles. The desirable plants at Conway are 
chiefly confined to the sea-shore, which we did not visit, and to 
the castle and walls of the ancient town, which we did perambu- 
late. The following were noticed, viz. Cheiranthus Cheiri on the 
walls; also Sinapis tenuifolia, Lepidium Smithii, about the road- 
sides ; Smyrnium Olusatrum in neglected corners about the castle ; 
Petroselinum sativum and Sedum dasyphyllum on the walls ; Oro- 
banche hedere on the ivy which covers much of the dilapidated 
remains of this ancient fortress of despotism. The morning 
was wet, and botanizing was rather uncomfortable, and hence we 
made but small progress in science. There was then a little 
steamer plying between Conway and Trefriew, which sailed at 
eight, but we preferred walking to waiting an hour for its depar- 
ture, and at seven o’clock started again by the left-hand or Car- 
narvon-side road to Llanrwst, and, trudging along a very muddy 
and altogether unpleasant way, verified the old saying, “ The 
richer the lands, the deeper the roads.” This was, on the whole, 
the most cheerless walk we had: though there was but little rain, 
the whole of the road was miry from the effects of the previous 
night’s rain, and we regretted the want of the firm footing which 
_ the roads in Carnarvon and Merionethshire always yielded under 
all circumstances. Our walk, bad as it proved, was not without 
some interest. We noticed Linwm usitatissimum on the road- 
side, and a lobed not incised (divided)-leaved variety of Malva 
moschata. This form had the leaves of M. sylvestris, with the 
habit, inflorescence, and flowers of M/.moschata. We never saw this 
variety in any other locality. Several of the specimens gathered 
or noticed varied in the form of the lower leaves, some being 
