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NOTES ON RADNORSHIRE PLANTS. 
By Henry N. Rotey, M.A., F.L.S. 
In August of a rene I made a few botanical excursions into 
Radnorshire, a county hitherto but little visited by botanists, and 
one of the nine pss omitted almost entirely from Watson’s 
‘ Topographical Botany,’ on account of the scantiness of the records 
of its flora 
The flora differs somewhat remarkably from that of the 
adjoining county = Hereford, and this I consider to be to a consider- 
able extent due to the difference of the geology of the district, 
Herefordshire ee almost entirely composed of old red sandstone 
and clay, whereas the pee visited in Radnorshire were either 
Silurian or voleanic rocks. The Stanner Rocks are remarkable to 
plants appears to be only known in Britain from Norfolk and Suffolk 
and this locality ; the latter occurs on the carboniferous limestones 
of the West of England, as at = Great Orme’s Head and St. Vin- 
cent’s Rocks, and again in Norf 
adnor Forest consists of a Pennant area of low hills, none 
more than 2166 feet in height; they are clothed with short grass, 
Pieris aquilina, Lastrea Oreopteris, Ulex Gallii i, Vaccinium Myr- 
tillus, &c., and quite bare of trees, except for a. few larch planta- 
ti they are composed of Upper Silurian rocks. e remainder 
of the country over which I collected was Lower Silurian, except at 
Builth, where the Carneddau range is composed o pee ape 
ee Ui 
Linaria minor: of these, 7’ anccdaes Li eg was — on nly < one I 
actually saw; but it must be remembered that my excursions were 
limited, and by no means exhaust _ flora of the southern parts 
to which I chiefly turned my atten 
will now give a list of the wie ste esting plants met with, 
most of which have not been previously recorded as occurring in’ 
umnneulu Lenormandi, F. Schultz. In a stream near Pains- 
rtd eevee; L. Streams in ane Radnor Forest. Abundant. 
R. auricomus, L. In a copse near Aberedw 
. arvensis, L. In the sorsificlis about Clyro 
Fumaria confusa, Jord. In a potato field near the railway, 
Abere dw. 
Cardamine erane, L. A rocky wood on the left bank of the 
River Edw, at Aberedw. 
Arabis tists, Br. New Radnor, and between Builth Wells 
Station and Llanellwedd, on walls. 
