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that in the Flora Londinensis, is almost certainly not of Welsh 
origin, as the leaves are lon er and more acute. In the British 
Museum there are the following MS. notes referring to the localities 
‘Anglesey. Gadar in the Parish of Llanvair in Cornwey [sic] 
at the north end of the Island facing the Skerries about half a mile 
from the sea upon the rocks where the soil is not deep, among the 
Scilla bifolia and Sedum rubens: it flowers in June. Mr. Williams”: 
“Qistus guttatus Fl. Brit. Holyhead Mountain and Amlwch, 
i .W. of the village among Heath, before the discovery of the 
great copper mine, plentifully. . ies.”” 
In Hooker’s London Journal of Botany (iii. 618, 1844) Planchon 
describes the Anglesey plant as a new species of Helianthemum, 
which he calls H. Brewer. He diagnoses it as follows :—‘‘ Helian- 
themum (e sectione Tuberaria) annun basi ramosum subdiffusum 
viscidulo-hispidulum, pedicellis bracteatis, defloratis subdeflexis, 
fructiferis erecto-patentibus, petalis angustis immaculatis, stamini- 
bus 8-12, seminibus quam in H. guttato majoribus.” “ The 
glance suggested the idea that the plant was specifically distinet 
from H. .’ The presence of bracts is, he says, constant 
in cultivation, as shown in the figure taken by Mr. Wilson from a 
cultivated example; and he considered the Anglesea plant specifically 
different from the French guttatum with which he was well ac- 
qua 
Syme (Eng. Bot. ed. 3, vol. ii. p. 8) treats H. Brewert as & 
subspecies of H. guttatum, “the chief point of difference being the 
presence of strap-shaped leafy bracts at the base of the icel.”’ 
nder H. guttatum he says the Jersey plant has the leaves with 
stellate pubescence and ebracteate. 
In 1890 I visited the Anglesey locality near Holyhead, and 
found plants having the bracteate flowers of H. Breweri, but with 
them were more luxuriant specimens, quite ebracteate; On my 
return I submitted them to Mr. J. G. Bak 
‘typical guttatum.” I reported this in this Journal for 1890 
(p. 815), but pointed out that the leaves were broader than those 
on the Jersey plant, and in the Report of the Bot. Exch. Club for 
1892, p. 855, I stated that I thought it was ebracteate H. Brewers. 
In his Flora of Anglesey and Carnarvon, p. 17, Mr. Griffith says wt 
have sown seeds of the supposed H. guttatum and seeds‘of undoubte 
H. Breweri from the same place in rich soil in my garden, with the 
result that they all turned out to be the same—viz. H Brewert.” 
From the foregoing statements we see that the characters given 
to H. Breweri both by its original describer and subsequent writers 
will need amending; as those of bracteate inflorescence, diffuse 
growth, and unspotted petals given by Planchon are found to be 
