172 THE JOURNAL OF BOTATfY 



basis of that department of the very curious museum formed by 

 Thoresby in his house at Leeds (see Hunter, South Yorkshire). 



In 1639 Thomas Johnson organised an expedition of the " Socii 

 Itinerantes " of the Pharmaceutical Society of London to the 

 mountains of North Wales : an account of the expedition is given in 

 his Merciirii Botanici i)ars altera (1641) reprinted in facsimile in 

 Opiiscala omnia hotanica Thomce Johnsoni edited by T. S. Ralph 

 (London, 161^7). The constitution of this travelling club is thus 

 stated by Johnson in the pi-eface to his Iter Plantar um Investiga- 

 tionis " susceptum a decern Sociis in Agrum Cantianum : Anno 

 Dom. 1629," and published in the same year : " Faucis abbinc elapsis 

 annis, consuetudo vero laudibilis inter rei herbariae studiosus crevit. 

 bis aut saipius quotannis triduum aut quadriduum ito Plantarum 

 investigationis ergo suscipere." Stonehouse joined the party at 

 Chester, having spent the previous night at Stockport, where he had 

 not been favourabl}^ impressed with the inn. Their route took them 

 by Conway, Penmaenmawr, Bangor, and Carnarvon to Griynn-lhivona, 

 where they were the guests of Thomas Glynn, to whom Johnson 

 dedicated his account of the expedition. After discoursing on the 

 perils of climbing Snowdon, Johnson gives a list of the plants found 

 by the party. At Beaumaris they enjoyed the hospitality of Richard 

 Buckley, visited his vivarium, and collected sea-weeds. They then 

 recrossed the straits to Lhan-lhechid, climbed Carnedh-lhewellyn in a 

 mist and in fear of nesting eagles, but saw little of botanical interest. 

 After a farewell visit to Glynn-lhivona, the party journeyed to 

 Harlech and Barmouth. Their homeward journey lay through 

 Merionethshire ; at Gruerndee Stonehouse left them and went home 

 through Shropshire to Barfield. Here he remained in quiet enjoyment 

 of his garden, to the Catalogue of which, drawn up in 1610, reference 

 has already been made ; some of the plants in Johnson's list are 

 included in the Catalogue, and were probably obtained on the Welsh 

 expedition. 



About 1618 we learn from Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy that 

 Stonehouse was forcibly ejected from his living by the Parliamentary 

 Commissioners and imprisoned. On his return, probably in 1652, his 

 spirit as a horticulturist seems to have been broken, for he then wrote 

 in the Catalogue a pathetic note in Latin, to the effect that but a few 

 of his plants had survived — " Novamque despero coloniam,'" — I have 

 no liope of a new colony. After this he would appear to have lived in 

 London, to have made or renewed acquahitance with the younger 

 Tmdescant, and to have written the introductory verses to the 

 (Catalogue of Tradescant's Museum, published in 1656 — the year after 

 Stonehouse's death (probably in London) at the age of 58 — one verse 

 .of which we have already quoted. 



Stoneliouse's connection with Magdalen may have determined his 

 friend Goodyer to leave his Botanical Library to that College, the 

 iCollege of Browne, and other early Botanists. 



Stonehouse was personally acquainted with Parkinson, to whom 

 he communicated his discovery at Darfield of Viola palustris, first 

 recorded as British on his authority in Park. Theatr. 755 (1640). 

 As Rioted by Pulteney (Sketches, i. 172) he travelled a good deal 



