10 ON POTAMOGETON LANCEOLATUS OF SMITH. 
the Fen country has again especially directed attention to it. But 
before that discovery was known, it had been very recent] 
gathered by Mr. J. K. Griffith, F.L.S., of Bangor, in the original 
locality. On his informing us of it, my friend Mr. A. G. More and 
I determined to go with him to the spot. 
The station is not even now a very accessible one, and until 
recently it might be almost called inaccessible. The formation of 
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ceolatum (King. Bot. t. 1985), and well figured by Mr. Sowerby from 
specimens sent to them in 1808 by the Rev. H. i 
flower (Hook. Bot. Misc. ii. 140). Mr. William Christy gathered 
it there in 1832, and Mr. J. E. Bowman at about the same date. 
I know of no visit having been since made to the place until 1879, 
when Mr. J. E. Griffith found it there.* On August 81, 1880, he 
conducted Mr. A. G. More and myself to the place. We found 
plenty of the plant growing in the quieter parts of the rather rapid 
st. » both above and below the bridge of Penrhos-lligwy. In 
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plants being absolutely identical, for several of our leading botanists 
have most carefully compared them, and found them to be the 
same in all respects. 
_ At one time I thought that it. might be P. variifolius, Thore, 
but am now convinced of my mistake; I have a specimen of 
* Ther ; . 
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