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THE ORME’S HEAD COTONEASTER. 
(Pate 504.) 
(T: 
delivered by its Vice-President, Mr. Willoughby Gardner, F.L.S., 
two plates, one showing an example taken from the Orme’s Head, 
grown in a garden in Llandudno, the other the plant im situ in its 
wild locality: the latter, by the courtesy of the Club, we are 
enabled to reproduce. The following account of the plant in its 
only British locality is extracted from Mr. Gardner’s paper.—Ep. 
Journ. Bor.] 
under the name of a “ dwarffe kinde of medlar.’” John Ray was 
at Conway on a botanical tour in 1658, and again in 1662, but he 
apparently did not visit the Orme neither did Dillenius, or 
all n 
entury ; and the Rey. J . Lightfoot, who was at Gloddaeth 
ve the mines at Llan . Peter I 
bald, of Huddersfield, described the “ Creigafal”’ (which was its 
ocal name) as growing on the same ledges of rock, and also 
“‘plentifully on other parts of the Great Orme’s Head.” Not 
many years after this, however, the Cotoneaster’s struggle for 
existence as a rare plant unfortunately commenced. In 1872 the 
the rapacity of collectors.” Again, a few years later, Bishop 
Walsham How wrote of having to “poke about” among the 
privets and brambles to discover it, remarking that “visitors had 
: “ s in Wales, ed. 1810, vol. iii. p. 142. 
t Harter Breede ,ondon, 1838 ; No. 40, 2713. 
{ History of Aberconwy, Denbigh, 1835, p. 159. 
Journat or Borany.—Vot. 48. [Aprit, 1910.] a 
