Account of a Botanical Tour in North Wales, ^c. 105 Species duhice. 8. Strongylus. Cavity of thorax of moor-buzzard {Buteo rufus). 9. . Trachea of turkey {Meleagris Gallopavo). * the gapes.' I have found three specimens, each upwards of half an inch in length, in the trachea of a chicken which died of the gapes a fortnight after being hatched, and was informed that it had mani-fested symptoms of the disease when only five days old. In the specimens which I have examined the male portion of the animal (as it has been called) was of a paler colour than the other, and no trace of a convoluted tube was visible through its parietes, though very evident in the female portion. [To be continued,] XV. — Abstract of a paper entitled " Account of a Botanical Tour in North Wales, the South of England and Jersey, during the montJis of August and September 1843." By R. Graham, M.D., Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh*. In this communication the Professor only noticed such plants observed by him as are not natives of Scotland, are scarce there, or which otherwise possess interest from marked pecu-liarities of geographical distribution in the districts which he visited. The journey extended from Liverpool to Chester, and thence by St. Asaph to Bangor. From Bangor the Professor and his party walked up Carnedd Llewellyn, and by the slate quarries of Penrhyn to Llanberris, botanizing in the woods and valleys in the neighbourhood, ascending Snowdon from the west, and passing on to Capel Curig and the DeviFs Kitchen, from which they went by the mail to Birmingham. From Birming-ham Dr. Graham proceeded to Dorsetshire and Jersey. What-ever was noticed regarding the vegetation elsewhere was seen only from the coach, or during the almost momentary stoppages at the stages. On returning from Jersey, a few hours were spent in a very hasty examination of the road-side in a corner of the Isle of Wight. The following are the plants seen in the first half of the jour-ney, and not truly wild in Scotland : — Lactuca muralis, in a little glen a few miles to the westward of Chester, and not again observed in the whole journey; and in the same place, Tamus communis (afterwards found to be very frequent further south) ; Chlora perfoliata, Helminthia echioides (also profuse near Wey-mouth) ; Diplotaxis tenuifolia, abundant on the walls near Ches-• Read before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Dec. 14, 1843.
XV.—Abstract of a paper entitled "Account of a Botanical Tour in North Wales, the South of England and Jersey, during the months of August and September 1843."
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