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HABITS AND LATIN NAMES OF BRITISH PLANTS. 
Lycopodium clavatum , L. alpinum , and L. selago , all covering the banks of 
the turbaries on Plinlimmon. 
Splachnum mnioides .—I picked up a small tuft of this Moss in fruit, on one 
of the stones of the highest cairn, whither it had been wafted by the 
blast, but how far it had travelled I cannot say. 
I found an old Birch-wood on the Machynnleth-road, full of venerable furrowed 
trees, and elegant pensile foliage, a favorite locality of the Lichens and Fungi , 
and I doubt not some rare species might be found here. I noticed among the 
former, Evernia prunastri, with apothecia, which is of uncommon occurrence in 
this state; Variolaria griseo-virens; Parmelia saxatilis , with apothecia; and 
some beautiful specimens of Usnea florida. Stereocaulon botryosum occurred on 
the bleak heights of Plinlimmon, with several curious species of the Scypkophori , 
or Cup-lichens. Among the Fungi , I gathered Agaricus pantkerinus in the 
Birch-wood, and Scleroderma vulgare was very plentiful on banks near an Oak- 
wood in the same vicinity, but nearer Llanidloes. 
ON THE HABITS AND PECULIARITIES OF BRITISH PLANTS, 
AND ON THE DERIVATIONS OF THEIR LATIN NAMES. 
By T. B. Hall. 
(Continued from p. 309.) 
Anemone. —From avisos, wind; being readily agitated, or its petals easily 
scattered, as noticed in Ovid, Met. j and hence the poetical allusion of Sir W. 
Jones— 
“ Youth, like a thin Anemone, displays 
His silken leaf, and in a morn decays.” 
Or from many of the species growing in exposed situations. 
Anemone nemorosa , Wood Anemone, Wood Nymph, Wind-flower.—The 
flowers fold up in a curious manner, and bend downwards against rain. The 
whole plant is acrid. Goats and Sheep eat it, but it is apt to disorder the latter 
violently. Horses, Cows, and Swine refuse it. The recent flowers are poisonous, 
and the plant yields an acrid, volatile principle, so corrosive as to be used exter¬ 
nally instead of Cantharides. It is also serviceable in head-aches, tertian agues, 
and rheumatic gout. A leaf of this plant, with Puccinia anemones growing on 
its under surface, was mistaken by Dr. Dillenius for a species of Fern, and was 
by him figured and described as such, in his edition of Ray’s Synopsis , p. 124, 
t. 3, fig. 1., under the name of Filix lobata, globulis, pulverulent is undique aspersa. 
The original specimen, from which the drawing was made, is still preserved in 
