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now changing into lilac, that even night seems unable to dispel. But I have 
raised mj eyes for a moment to mark tfiat low ranging Buzzard who seems 
to have just captured a young Rabbit—and all the glorious tints are gone. So 
over the young Severn and through the silent timber-hutted streets of Llanidloes, 
and beneath its low-tumbling town-hall, to my quarters at the Throttle-puppy 
Arms.* In Wales, certainly, “ Arms’" are ever open to take in the stranger, 
and the cry of “ Arms” is for ever in his ear ! From the child to the dotard, all 
are presumed to be in a Arms,” and certainly extortion places “ arms” in all 
bands, from the urchin wh6 runs after every carriage crying “ penny,” to the 
matured ewmry who thinks the Sasenach gold hardly pays his important services 
in leading the stranger to a rock or waterfall, that but for the stranger he himself 
would have never regarded. The fact is, after all, whether one travels with 
“ arms” or without them, in the desert or turnpike-road, tribute must be paid— 
and it is all the same whether one hands out to the Arab or the inn-keeper. 
Here, boots, send the chamber-maid, and call me up at five precisely, for to-mor¬ 
row sees me in the clouds with Plinlimmon ! 
LIST OF FLOWERING PLANTS FOR EVERY MONTH IN THE 
YEAR. 
April. 
(Continued from page 140.) 
Tuberous Moschatell, Adorn mosckatellina ; Yellow Bugle, or Ground-pine, 
Ajuga chamoepitys ; Common Alder, Alnus glutinosa ; Mountain Anemone, 'Ane¬ 
mone' Apennina; Wood Anemone, A. nemorosa; Pasque-flower Anemone, A. 
pulsatilla; Common Wall-cress, Arabis thaliana; German Madwort, Asperugo 
procumbens; Maidenhair Spleenwort, Asplenium trichomanes; Early Winter- 
cress, Barbarea prcecox; Common Daisy, Beilis perennis; Common Birch, 
Betula Alba; Common Turnip, Brassica rapa; Common Box-tree, Buxus 
sempervirens; Vernal Water-starwort, Callitriche verna; Bitter Ladies’-smock, 
Cardamine amara; Hairy Ladies’-smock, C. hirsuta; Meadow Ladies’-smock, 
C. pratensis ; Round-headed Carex (or Sedge), Carex pilulfera ; Vernal Carex, 
C. prsecox; Great Common Carex, C. riparia ; Glaucous Straight-leaved Carex* 
C. stricta; Loose Pendulous Carex, C. strigosa; Little Mouse-ear Chickweed, 
* Among the thousand-and-one 46 Arms ” spread in every direction to catch the poor wandering 
Saesnach in the Principality, I noticed 44 Vulcan’s Arms” at Aberystwith, though I should feel 
dubious of trusting myself within their brawny grasp ! 
VSL. III.—NO. XIX. 2 D 
