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LYCOPODIACE^. 
Brecknockshire. Mr. Ralfs informs me he found it in the 
lake below Brecon Beacon. 
Caernarvonshire. — I have found it in more than a dozen of 
the little lakes which abound in the Snowdon range, and this 
appears to be one of the earliest recorded habitats. It was found 
in Ogwen, Lyn-y-cwn, and the lakes of Llanberis, by Llhwyd, 
Ray, Richardson, and Dillenius, the latter of whom waded into 
the waters of Llanberis purposely to find it. The imagination 
of a botanist delights to picture the Sherardian professor in this 
interesting situation : his shoes, with their enormous silver buc- 
kles, and his grey-ribbed hose, are seen reposing on the strand ; 
his important bag wig and his formidable military hat, sharply 
looped on three several sides, adorn his learned head ; the am- 
ple skirts of his coat are gathered on one arm, whilst the other 
hand grasps a gold-headed cane, wherewith to uproot the brittle 
Calamaria. I will quote the entire passage in which this ad- 
venture is recorded ; the mention of uncomfortable lodgings will 
be amusing to those modern botanists who have feasted in the 
palace-like hotel, now standing almost on the site of the philo- 
sopher’s pathetic lamentation. “ I found the common Suhularia 
folio rigido, mentioned to grow only in Phynon Vreech, and the 
Juncifolia cochlearics capsulis^ pretty plentifully, which re- 
lieved me very much of our disappointment of not seeing more 
Glyder plants. In the lake near Llanberis, a little further on, 
where you found the Suhularia fragilis, folio longiore et tenu- 
iore, cast out of the lake, I pulled off my shoes and stockings, 
and found it growing there in great plenty. If any body had 
the means of fishing out plants from the depths of these lakes, 
I am inclined to think he might find strange things. Near this 
place, about three years ago, Mr. Evans, coming home late from 
a christening, in stormy and rainy weather, was drowned. His 
corpse could not be found by any means used for fishing. There 
being no parson living at the place at present, it is almost im- 
possible for any body to go herborizing thither. We had very 
hard and uncomfortable lodging at the alehouse, and with difii- 
culty got a young man to be our interpreter and guide. At last 
* Subularia aquatica. 
