WILD BRITISH PLANTS AT WARSLOW. 75D 
place there are omnibuses twice a day, and a railroad is in pre- 
paration. They are making roads and building lodging-houses 
at Llandudno. There are three hotels, and the smallest of these, 
the Mostyn Arms, is a very good one, so that on the whole 
Llandudno may be pronounced one of the most tempting water- 
ing places on our coasts; and it is now easily accessible, and 
will soon become more so. 
I doubt, with all these merits, whether this part of the coast 
will be favourable to the collection of marine plants or animals. 
Having two shores, of course any strong wind would probably 
throw up a considerable number of both, but both sides are 
sandy and but slightly inclined, so that it is a long distance to 
the low-water mark. On the south-west side there is a small 
distance of pebbly shore, but there are no rocks in situ to amuse 
or reward the collector of such objects. It is true, that imme- 
diately under the cliffs there are scattered rocks and stones, but 
these seem to be merely fragments which have fallen from above, 
and present none of those pools which are objects of so much in- 
terest and beauty on some of our limestone shores.— Yours, etc. 
J. Woops. 
Wild British Plants in the Neighbourhood of Warslow, Stafford- 
shire. Collected and communicated by the Ruv. A. Bioxam. 
Sojourning a few days, in the autumn of 1853, at Warslow 
Hall, in Staffordshire, I took the opportunity of noting down 
the rarer species of plants that came across my path in the few 
walks that I was enabled to take. Warslow is situated in the 
north-east portion of Staffordshire, and not far from the borders 
of Derbyshire. It is in the immediate vicinity of Ecton Tor, a 
bold lofty hill, celebrated for the beautiful specimens of copper 
ore extracted from its interior. This is a most interesting spot 
to a botanist, as well as a mineralogist, and would doubtless 
afford, in the spring and summer months, numerous plants which 
escaped my notice during the short visit of a few hours that I 
was enabled to make amongst its treasures. Scarcely a twentieth 
part of its surface could be explored by me through want of time. 
The following list will afford some indications of its richness. 
Plants about Ecton Tor:—Vicia sylvatica, Saxifraga hypnoides, 
