NOTES ON THE FLORA OF DENBIGHSHIRE 3 



Denbigh and Montgomeryshire plants. This list may probably 

 be accepted as accurate in the main, but must be used with 

 caution ; of the plants mentioned which Hancock records, at least 

 three are certainly errors — Alchemilla alpina, Silene acaulis, and 

 Geranium sylvaticum. 



I have elsewhere (Journ. Bot. 1908, 187) called attention to 

 the existence of several books of MS. notes on the flora of Flint 

 and Denbigh, preserved at St. Beuno's College, near St. Asaph. 

 Certain Denbighshire records from these MSS. are hereafter in- 

 dicated by the abbreviation Fl. B. = Flora of St. Beuno's. 



It may be well here to indicate the chief bibliographical sources 

 of information, although such records are excluded from the 

 present paper. The Philosophical Transactions, vol. Ixi. (1772), 

 contains (pp. 359-389) a Letter from Eichard Waring to Daines 

 Barrington, which includes some interesting references to Den- 

 bighshire plants. Pennant, in A Tour in Wales (1810, 3, p. 142), 

 supplies several early records * for the Creuddyn Peninsula. In 

 Cough's edition of Camden's Britannia (1789) there is a short list 

 of Denbigh plants (vol. ii. 587), but these are mainly drawn from 

 Kay or other sources ; in the Carnarvonshire list (pp. 562-564) eight 

 Gloddaeth plants are mentioned. Bingley's North Weeks (1804) 

 contains numerous references to Denbighshire plants of which 

 many are due to J. W. Griffith, of Garn, near Denbigh, who is 

 also largely responsible for the records which occur in Withering. 

 A few Denbigh species are noticed in the Botanists' Guide (1805), 

 chiefly on Griffith's authority. A curious little work entitled 

 Faumda Grustensis (1830) by John Williams, of Llanrwst (of 

 whom some account is given in this Journal for 1910, p. 232) 

 contains a list of plants of the Llanrwst neighbourhood ; several 

 of the stations are in Carnarvonshire. The Neiu Botanists' 

 Guide (1835 and 1837) supplies a very useful Denbighshire list 

 (pp. 244-251, 634-635), for which J. E. Bowman, of Wrexham, 

 was chiefly responsible ; some Creuddyn Peninsula records are 

 contained in the Carnarvonshire list. The Phytologist supplies 

 occasional references to the flora of the area under review, and 

 there are scattered notices of Denbighshire plants in the Journal 

 of Botany, the most important being the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers's 

 " Notes on Some North Wales Plants " (1886, 339, 363). To the 

 fourth edition of Jenkinsons Practical Guide to North Wales (1887) 

 Mr. Britten contributes a chapter (pp. Ixxxi-xcix) on the botany 

 of the area in question, and Mr. G. R. Jebb supplies some original 

 notices of Denbighshire plants. The periodical entitled Byc-Gones 

 relating to Wales and the Border Counties (Oswestry : Woodall 

 Minshall) consists of matter which originally appeared under the 

 above heading in the Oswestry Advertizer ; these newspaper 

 columns are reprinted yearly and are issued as a volume under the 



* These are all for Gloddaeth, where Pennant states that the plants in 

 question were observed by Lightfoot ; these records are identical with those 

 contained in an account of Lightfoot's tour, which is preserved at the British 

 Museum, and was published in this Journal in 1905 (pp. 290-307). 



