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young Mr. Evans, of Bangor, gave us leave to lie at his house, 
and sent us provisions from Bangor. 
If some rich botanist, that has no relations or children, would 
build a house there, and buy some land to it, which might be 
done with little money, it would be a very kind invitation for 
botanists to visit these strange places, and be an inducement for 
making a collection of Welsh plants, as you proposed. With- 
out such a fixed place of abode it seems to me impracticable.”^ 
Dillenius learned from the mountaineers of the neighbourhood, 
that fish feed on the Isoetes ; and that when detached from its 
hold in the soil and cast on shore, the cattle devour it greedily 
and grow fat on it.f The passage is rather obscurely worded, 
and its meaning seems to have been mistaken by compilers, who 
make it fatten the fish, and leave the bullocks out of the question. 
Cumberland. — • Mr. Winch found it in Wastwater ; and Mr. 
Wilson informs me he found it in Floutern tarn, near Buttermere. 
In Derwent water : Mr. Woodward. Ulls water. Lower end 
and Gowbarrow-wike : Hutchinson. Guide, 
Denbighshire. — I am informed by Mr. Watson that Mr. J. 
E. Bowman found it in the lakes of Denbighshire. 
Lancashire.— Miss Beever, to whom I am indebted for both 
living and dried specimens, informs me that it occurs not un- 
commonly in the lakes near Coniston. 
Northumberland. — “ Prestwick carr : Mr. Thornhill.” — Bo- 
tanist'' s Guide, 
Westmoreland. — Mr. Pinder has found it in nearly all the 
lakes of this county. 
Yorkshire. — Mr. Ibbotson has obtained specimens from 
Castle-Howard lake, and from the Foss reservoir near Coxwould. 
In Scotland, notwithstanding the preponderance of hilly coun- 
try, the Quillwort has not yet been found in so many localities 
as I should have anticipated from the frequency of its occurrence 
in the Snowdon district : the following are all that I am ac- 
quainted with. 
^ Linn. Correspondence, ii. 143. 
f Referunt monticolsB pisces, quos habent optimi generis, utraque hscc herba 
vesci, et armenta, si projectam inveniant, avide devorare et pinguescere.— Hist. 
Muse. 542. 
