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particulars from crocata , independent of the emission or non-emission of the yel¬ 
low or orange-coloured juice. Mr. Watson, with the best intentions, here only 
increases the difficulty by inquiring, in his Botanist's Guide , for apiifolia only, 
and leaving out all mention of crocata. No light, however, is thrown upon the 
subject by any of his correspondents, for three set the plant down without any par¬ 
ticular habitat, while even the acute Mr. J. E. Bowman puts a query to his “ apii¬ 
folia ?”■ observing “ I found what I take to be this on the Menai Strait, above 
Yayrwl, and in a dingle near Beaumaris.* Since penning the above I have re¬ 
ceived the second edition of Lindley’s Synopsis , where, in the Supplement, the 
following remark occurs, coinciding with the views I have taken. “ In the Bri¬ 
tish Flora , Dr. Hooker admits, under the name CEnanthe apiifolia , of Brotero, 
a plant resembling (E. crocata , from which it differs, among other things, in hav¬ 
ing no yellow poisonous juice: but in the third edition of that work the species 
is abandoned, upon the ground of such juice not being constantly present in CE 
crocata itself. Of course, it will not constantly be present in that plant more 
than in any thing else, inasmuch as the presence of such secretions depend upon 
seasons and other circumstances; but from what has been said about the supposed 
lB . apiifolia , we recommend that plant to a new and more diligent investigation : 
it is said to grow about Plymouth.” 
On several Rumices , growing by the side of the rail-road, I noticed the Dock 
/Ecidium (2E. rubellum, Pers.) in great plenty, displaying its white clustered pseu- 
doperidia in extreme delicacy and beauty. It is not common in fructification in 
the midland counties, and hence Purton has figured it under the name of FE. 
rumicisf 
Being anxious to investigate the vicinity of Swansea, I found it expedient to 
proceed there by mail, which going the whole way to Milford, I found every place 
but one engaged—that one was unfortunately inside. Little account, therefore, 
can I give at present of the plants intermediate between Newport and Swansea, 
except that * Cotyledon umbilicus , not noticed by Mr. Watson as inhabiting Gla¬ 
morganshire, appeared very plentiful on almost every rock and wall I could 
occasionally discern between Cardiff and Briton Ferry. At Cardiff I had an op¬ 
portunity of walking round the area of the castle, and glancing at its ruined keep ; 
when, as I was about to retire, a porter, in the livery of Lord Bute, would in¬ 
sist upon conducting me into the only lion’s den about the place—a square damp 
dungeon close to the entrance, with a solitary ray of light hardly able to wind its 
way in through a corner cranny, where he assured me Robert, Duke of Norman¬ 
dy, had been confined for above twenty years ! I had forgotten all about Duke 
Robert, and repented that I had been thus allured by my conductor, and must 
* Watson’s New Botanist's Guide to the Localities of the Rarer Plants of Britain , p. 229. 
f Purton, Midland Flora , vol. iii., t. 26. 
