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BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
Notes Phytological (Welsh Plants), August 1855. 
RETROSPECTIVE.—Clematis Vitalba.—Near Llansillin, D.; again, near 
the entrance of Llan Rhaydr, D.; again, climbing over the hedge and 
stone-wall boundary of a field near to a cottage garden north of the bridge 
by the Bala road, not quite a quarter of a taile from Dolgelly,—that is, 
thrice in addition to former notices of this plant in 1854, ete. Quere: 
If the seeds ripen here sufficiently for germinating? if so, whether truly 
native or not, that fact, if established, would help to account for its rare 
occurrence, for | do not remember to have even once seen it as a cultivated 
or garden plant. 
Spircea salicifolia.—There have been numerous opportunities of observ- 
ing this plant, and I find that it occurs in garden-hedges near cottages, 
and in hedge-banks in sequestered localities, indifferently ; RLOn instance, far 
from any dwelling as you descend the mountain-range, after having passed 
the highest ground—say about midway between Bala and Dolgelly—and 
there for a considerable distance and in some abundance. Also there is a 
good quantity of it in hedge-banks of the old road, supposed to be an 
ancient British or Roman way, -between the Maentwrog road, near its 
Junction at the Mill-pond, where Ffestiniog and Maentwrog and Traws- 
fynydd roads all three unite. Now from about 100 or 150 yards nearer to 
Trawsfynydd than this point, there is a very curious rough and ancient 
road runs nearly due east, and passes within less than a quarter of a mile 
of the Tommen-y-Mur (1 believe it is an old crossway leading to Bala) ; 
well, on the left-hand side before you reach the spot where the camp is, 
and where the Sarn Helen crosses this rough way, I saw a sort of hedge- 
bank overgrown with the Spiraea salicifolia for some distance, and per- 
fectly wild. Quere: Can the plant be in any way connected with those 
antiquities, which prove this neighbourhood to have formed a station of 
some importance at an early period ? 
Verbascum Lychnitis (not a single plant merely) occurred in the church- 
yard of Llanfachreth, Merionethshire. There was nothing to induce one 
to suppose that this Verbascum had been introduced. 
There is a very pretty pure white-flowered variety of Prunella vulgaris 
in some abundance in the meadow through which there is a public foot- 
path, and which leads from Llansillin herd to the great house called Glas 
Coed. The same meadow produces also abundance of the Genista tinc- 
toria, a plant which has not come under my observation much elsewhere. 
On the wall of a farmyard, before you enter Llansillin, I observed that 
same sort of neat-growing Cistopteris which grows, or did grow, on a wall 
at Albury, in Surrey. Gathered one or two nice fronds of it; but alas! 
they have gone astray somehow. 
Cader Idris produces, so far as I could see, few plants, but magnificent 
patches of Lycopodium clavatum and alpinum; Selago also, most beautiful 
large specimens. There were some specimens which carried with them a 
resemblance to annotinum. 
Mentha piperita I noticed in other places besides that spot near Dinas, 
where we last year saw it, particularly lower down the same stream, still 
nearer to Dinas. 
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