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A BOTANICAL TOUR IN HEREFORDSHIRE, MONMOUTHSHIRE, 
AND SOUTH WALES; 
WITH INCIDENTAL NOTICES OF THE SCENERY, ANTIQUITIES, &C. 
By Edwin Lees, F. L. S., &c. 
(Continued from p. 122.) 
I LEFT Swansea early in the morning, to .visit Cromlyn Bog, a locality 
celebrated in insect-hunting history, and situated three miles'to the eastward 
of the town. As I crossed the ferry over the. Tawe, formidable masses of 
vapour appeared brooding over the nearest mountains, shrouding the distant 
view, and offering a demonstration of no very inviting nature. I moved for- 
iWard rather hesitatingly, pondering upon the probabilities of becoming a walking 
bog-plant, and the differences that might be perceptible in my hahit from such 
an occurrence, when contrasted with a drier and more congenial seat beside a 
comfortable breakfast-table at the Mackworth Arms. But my attention soon 
became engrossed with the ‘‘ stars of earth,’’ and as I rambled On by the sea¬ 
shore, and thence along the road towards Cromlyn, I took no note of the 
descending vapours till they at once overwhelmed me in their Watery embrace, 
and forced me to remain for some time an unwilling prisoner beneath the arch of 
a bridge, bestriding the canal that skirts the edge of the morass. But at length 
the cloudy w^elkin ceased to pour its watery stores upon the plain—the 
vapours, slowly retiring to the hills, veiled them for a moment in pearly 
gossamer^and then sailing into mid heaven, a flood of light burst upon the 
sparkling inland prospect, the broad expanse of yellow sand, and the retiring 
waters of the scarcely heard terminating ocean. 
The extensive sandy flats that stretch along the margin of the sea in South 
Wales are termed Burrows,” I presume entirely from the circumstance of their 
affording a retreat to multitudes of Rabbits; they are generally overgrown with 
a rough and unornamental vegetation, though producing a pretty fair pasturage 
in spots where a land rill trickles along, or marshy pools of fresh water moisten 
the thirsty soil. The sun of course often pours excessive radiance upon these 
sands, rendering them a favourite locality for the insect race, and at this time I 
observed several specimens of the Cicindela syhatica^ running with extreme 
swiftness over the sand. Here, on the Cromlyn Burrows, and on the ground 
intermediate between them and Swansea, I observed the following plants. I 
place the asterisk, as usual, to indicate where it occurs that the plant has been 
previously unrecorded^ so far as I know, as a denizen of the spot, and at all 
