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On the Botany of the Great Orme’s Head, Carnarvonshire. By 
JosEPH Woops, F.L.S. 
Mr. Editor,—You said you liked short notes for the ‘ Phyto- 
logist,’ and on this ground perhaps you may think the account 
of a few hours’ botany on the Great Orme’s Head not entirely 
without interest. 
I went by car from Conway to Llandudno, on the evening of 
the 8th of June. Next morning was cold and wet. I endea- 
voured to get a guide or particular direction to the habitat of 
the Cotoneaster ; but failmg im this, I set off alone as soon as 
the weather promised a little improvement, ascending the little 
hollow at the base of which the present village is placed. My 
first divergence was to the right, and I observed upon the rocks 
there Geranium sanguineum, Silene nutans, and Helianthemum 
canum. Whatever plants may grow in this position however, 
the rocks are so high and so solid, and the intervening spaces so 
steep, that it is almost impossible to investigate its products ; 
and seeing an eminence on the opposite side of the hollow and of 
the road that leads up it, where the ground was much more ac- 
cessible, I directed my steps towards it. Artemisia Absinthium 
is abundant about Llandudno, and in my way to the point at 
which I aimed I saw a good deal of it; and soon after, met with 
Potentilla verna. On reaching the spot which I had made my 
object, I presently fell in with the Cotoneaster. There might 
be in that neighbourhood perhaps twenty bushes of it; but the 
flowers were over, rather perhaps from having been blighted with 
the cold winds, than from having performed their allotted office, 
since very little of the fruit was set. Helianthemum canum here 
covered the ground to a great extent. The next plant was Scilla 
vernda, flowering very abundantly. I afterwards met with much 
finer specimens near Holyhead, but much less attainable, from the 
bulbs lying among the roots of Furze, while on the Orme’s Head 
they are altogether on the open turf. The plant is also said to 
abound on the hill of Howth. Sctlla verna seems to be essen- 
tially a western plant; and it is curious that it should cross the 
Irish Channel, and then stop, without apparent cause, a little to 
the east of Conway. -Antennaria dioica next occurred, but after- 
wards I added nothing in my walk up to the summit of the hill 
and along its south-western shore, unless I mention a Fumaria, 
N: SJ -VOLi (5. , L 
