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above Llanfairfechan, with Habenaria conopsea Benth .—Ilabcnaria 
chloroleuca llitll. Near Dolbadarn Castle, Llanberis. 
Juncus trig him is L. Feel Fras. 
Carex dioica L. Slope above Llyn-an-Afon.— 0. puli car in L. 
f. montana Pugsl. Frequent on rocks of Foel Fras, Cvvm Idwal, 
Cwm Glas, Clogvvyn dur Arddu, and elsewhere; and also in wet rills 
and on boggy mountain-slopes, where it often grows taller and 
approaches the specific type. I think that in all these mountain 
plants the perigynia are of a darker, more olive-brown colour than in 
the lowland form.— C. riyida Good. Both Carnedds. 
Descliampsia ccespitosa Beauv. var. brevifolia Parn. Wet rocks 
of Foel Fras .—Poa annua L. var. supina Gaud. Summit of Snow¬ 
don.— P. yla-uca Sm. Cwm Idwal. 
Lycopodium Selayo L. On Llwyd Mawr (e. 2500 ft. alt.), a 
large straggling form with steins a foot long and spreading leaves, 
simulating L . annotinum. This is apparently identical with Mr. Sal¬ 
mon’s plant from Ogo Owen, which he refers to var. patens Desv. 
(Journ. Bot. p. 3L9 (1917)).— L. alpinum L. Carreg Fawr, above 
Llanfairfechan (alt. 1 LOO ft .).—Selayiuella selayinoides Link. Foel 
Fras; Ysgolion Duon. 
ISAAC BAYLEY BALFOUK. 
(1853-1922.) 
An Appreciation by F. 0. Bower, Sc.I)., F.E.S. 
[The following appreciation, by permission of the writer and of 
the proprietors of the paper, is reprinted from The Glasyoiv Herald’ 
of Dec. 5th. Prof. Bower was so long and so intimately acquainted 
with the late Sir I. B. Balfour that this sketch from his pen has a 
special value and interest. A more detailed account of Balfour’s 
botanical work will be found in the Times of Dec. 1.— Ed. Journ. 
Box.] 
By the death of Sir Isaac Bavlev Balfour the country and the 
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world have lost a scientific personality of a type that is becoming 
rarer every day. Such men can ill be spared. An age of ultra- 
specialism does not favour the cultivation of breadth of view or 
length of vision. The rush for early achievement consequent on the 
forcing methods of selection for official posts has tended to breed a 
myopic intellect, which sees minutiae at near hand with surprising 
acuteness, but it fosters ever less and ever less the capacity for 
grasping the major problems of the world. Balfour was one of those 
who by birth, experience, and mentality are able to take and hold 
during life the larger view. All through that wealth of fact of 
which he was master ran the golden thread of relation. His data 
were all fitted into a large frame. That was what gave a magic to 
his conversation and a weight to his scientific advice that was un¬ 
rivalled. For a quarter of a century lie has been the most efficient 
all-round botanist of the British Empire: the friend and counsellor of 
all that is best in British botany. 
