New Guide to Aberstwith and Its Environs; Comprising Notices, Historical and Descriptive, of the Principle Objects of Interest in the Town and Neighbourhood (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1851 Excerpt: ... evenness of surface and a glossy appearance, which often lead persons viewing them for the first time to suppose they are paintings. CONCHOLOGY. The total number of genera in the arrangement of Linna'iis, of shells found on the Borth Sands and at Aberdovey, is 28. For the information of collectors, the following list is subjoined. MULTIVALVES. UNIVALVES. With a regular Spire. Chiton Cypraa Pholas Bulla Lepas Voluta Baccinum Bivalves. Strombus Murex Mya Trochnus Solen Turbo Tellina Helix Cardium Nerita Mactra Without a regular Spire. Donax Patella Venus Dentalium Area Serpula Anomia Teredo Mytilua. Sabella PLANTS FOUND IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. The botanical productions of the maritime and alpine districts of this neighbourhood are exceedingly numerous, and many are rare and curious. To particularize the whole would be to compose a nomenclature: and as the Author has already published the Flora of the Neighbourhood, See Flora Ceretics, at the Publisher. comprising most of the native plants, suffice it here to notice some as specimens of the whole. Cls.Ord. Botanical name. English name. Locality. 22 4 Myrica Gale Dutch myrtle Corefochno 5 Humulus lupulus Common hop Hedges, Llanba darn CRYPTOGAMIA--FERNS, &c. 24 1 Polypodium phegopteris Pale mountain poly-The highest por pody tion of Valea dryopteris Tender three-Rocks branched ditto Aspidium oreopteris Heath shield fern Neuaddlwyd filix mas Male shield ditto Clarach Cysopteris dentata Toothed bladder do. Devil's Bridge fragilis Brittle bladder ditto Ditto Asplenium trichom-Common maiden-On walls anes hair spleenwort adiantum nigrum Black-stalked Nanteos spleenwort filix faemina Short-fruited Clarach spleenwort Blechnum boreale Hard fern Ditto Hymenophyllum Scottish filmy fern Devil's Bridge Wilsoni 2 Lycopodium ...