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was faintly glimmering, and a long dark wall of tidal waves were tumbling in 
upon the shore. I scrambled in, on, and about the sand-hills, to some distance 
on the beach towards Oystermouth, giving up my researches only with actual 
night, though the small continued falling rain, the dash of the spray, and the 
spread of the sombre clouds, had long left me solitary on the sands. The follow¬ 
ing plants were here gathered by me. I place the asterisk as before, to indicate 
those not noticed in Glamorganshire, or in the county I happen to be itinerating, 
in Mr. H. C. Watson's New Botanists Guide to the Localities of the rarer 
Plants of Britain. 
Delphinium Consolida.' —Some very beautiful blue and light purple varieties 
growing in the sand. 
* Glaucium Spreading its large yellow petals beautifully among the 
stones on the barrier of the beach. It is frequent along this coast, from 
Swansea to Aberystwith, though not noticed by Mr. Watson as in¬ 
habiting South Wales, which shows how little this district has been ex¬ 
amined botanically, while North Wales has been gleaned over and over again. 
^CocMearia Armor acta. —Among rubbish on the shore, north of the pier. 
*Cakile maritima. —Pleasingly displaying its light purple blossoms amongst 
grass, &c., on the borders of the sand-hills. 
^Sinapis tenuifolia.' —Dispersed along the shore, whence probably it has pro¬ 
gressed to adjacent walls and old structures, as seen in many parts of 
South Wales. 
^Arenaria peploides.-—! brought some living specimens of this plant home, 
and attempted its cultivation in a garden, where it lived for many months, 
and even through a winter; but it never extended itself, and ^finally dis¬ 
appeared. 
'^Rosa spinosissima. —Along the sandy “ burrows,” as the neutral ground 
between low and high-water, or rather between the latter and the culti¬ 
vated ground, is here provincially termed, I found this beautiful Rose, 
forming dwarf thickets in the utmost profusion. Its lovely white flowers, 
moist with the dews of evening, and closing up their petals, were visible 
for some distance, forming the most delightful relief conceivable to the 
aridity of the shore, on whose naked bosom they sprang, w'hile the pro¬ 
fusion of flowers studding their fairy forms, and their delicate odour, ren¬ 
dered them objects peculiarly pleasing to behold. This is, no doubt, the 
original type of R. spmosissima^ though inland specimens exceed it so- 
much in size as to seem almost of a different species, but the same profusely 
spinose stem prevails in all. Though the late Sir J. E. Smith records, 
that according to his observation the flower stalks are “ quite smooth and 
naked,” yet in these marine specimens, the utmost diversity prevailed, 
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