HELIANTHEMUM BREWERI, Ptancn. 
By G. Craripecz Drucez, Hon. M.A., F.L.S. 
dwarf Hyssop; wild Rush; little seed flower; 8 or 4 s 
Si hag a from the Town of Holyhead, to the S.W. or there- 
: . i In this part of the mountain, there is a large standing 
fr re of water, seldom or never dry; and if you walk upon the 
3 z bn part of the Mountain W. of this pool, till you come to the 
it uth end of it, you can not miss the plant; The mountain that 
the Tuk upon is called Llechdda, which lyes between the Sea and 
the Fire called Llyn Mawr, and the greatest plenty grows upon 
the rik est part, where there is a heap of stones partly walled in 
orm of a Circle.” 
ike al d appear that Brewer had the previous year sent seeds 
tlds in ant to Sherard, for in the letter of Dillenius to Brewer 
172 in the National Herbarium) we find one written Aug. 27, 
75 In which the following passage occurs :— 
Out of your seeds Mr. Sherard had one plant of y° Helianthe- 
mum but did not flower this year and is now a going of. Y° leaf 
i p. 842: this 
each petalum 
Pp 
- 83) figures under the same name a bracteate and spotted-petalled 
does not tell us 
s 
plant, which may be a garden specimen. But he 
as a locality, evidently mi i 
‘ ’ y mistranslatin 
name, in which he is followed by Smith (E. B. t. 544), who says 
ard 
f the petals. The 
