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top of the Glyder are Trigvulcaugh rocks ; on the north side of 

 which, growing out of the clifts of the steep rocks, you'll find the 

 Plantar/o minor angustifolia J. B.: this seems to me a distinct 

 plant from the marine one ; the leaves are shorter, narrower, and 

 more rigid ; the spikes shorter. I have kept it in my garden ever 

 since I was in Wales with Mr, Lloyd, and it never varies ; that 

 from the bishoprick of Durham, and also from Northumberland, is 

 no other than the marine one. I have this also in my garden/' 

 This description appears fairly conclusive as to the plant being 

 allied to P. maritima ; but we have further evidence. In the third 

 edition of Ray's Synopsis (p. 315), Dillenius adds to the original 

 name, "Plantam hanc e rupibus Trigvylcangh orientem spectantibus 

 in hortum intuli, ubi jam viret; D. Richardson. Plantagini manna 

 Ger. tam similis est ut distingui nequeat. Spica saltern gracihor 

 est, quod loci conditioni procul dubio debetur": and in his her- 

 barium are plants sent by Dr. Eichardson from Durham and 

 Northumberland labelled, " sane nondiffert a maritima" ; and also 

 two specimens gathered on M Sept. 1727, on Trigvylchau Bocks by 

 Mr. Brewer " — the latter are very narrow-leaved forms of P. »™ rl ' 

 tima, not P. lanceolata. In a letter of Dr. Eichardson to Dillenius, 

 Oct. 25th, 1726, he says he wishes Dillenius had been on " the 

 high rock Trigvylchy, which is at the very top of the Glydyr . . . • 

 that you might have gathered an Plantago alpina angustifolia ? J. B. 

 of Mr. Lhwyd then in flower " ; he repeats the observations about 

 it which he made to Sherard, and adds that it has remained con- 

 stant in its characters in his garden. Therefore we may without 

 doubt identify this plant of Eay as a variety of P. maritima. 



P. lanceolata var. spharostachya is represented in the DilleniaB 

 Synopsis ; being one of the new species added by Dillenius, it stands 

 next to P. lanceolata on p. 315, n. 6, as Plantago angustifolia minor 

 Tab. Ic. 732. His herbarium specimens are from M pratis Insula 

 Selsey non procul a maris littore copiose Junio," and from u Llan- 

 berris in saxosis folia glabra; Elthami in vulgarem transiit,' 

 which suggests that it is rather a state than a variety. The fact 

 that both plants occurred near Llanberis may have misled Banks, 

 "but I think I remember seeing spJmrostachya also on the Glydyr* 

 S. P. Gray {Nat. Arr. Brit. PI. ii. p. 293) puts the latter plan 1 

 as var. trinewhim of P. lanceolata (his Arnoglosstm lanceolawn)* 

 characterized by its " leaves narrow, 3-ribbed " ; while the former 

 plant is wrongly identified with P. alpinnm L., a plant unknown m 

 Britain, and practically limited to Central Europe. 



G. Claridge Druce. 





When I read Mr. Druce's note, and in its light reperused Mr- 

 Salmon's paper, it seemed to me that the suggestion that both 

 plants were found in the Llanberis locality was the solution of the 

 matter. I wonder now that it did not strike either Mr. Salmon or 

 myself when we read his paper in proof that the variety spharo- 

 stachya did not correspond with Dillenius's remark, " Plantagm 1 

 marime Gey. tam similis est ut distingui nequeat " ; although it 







