THE FLORA OF WALES. 15 



Sir J. E. Smith, the distinguished botanist, visited his friend, 

 Thomas Johnes, at Hafod, in North Cardiganshire, in the summer 

 of 1796 and at several other times. In 1810 he published an 

 account of these visits under the title "A Tour to Hafod, in 

 Cardiganshire, the seat of Thomas Johnes, Esq., M.P., &c., &c. 

 By James Edward Smith, M.D., F.R.S., &c.. President of the 

 Linnean Society. London. Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, 

 for White & Co., Horace's Head, Fleet Street. 1810." The book, 

 which is a folio volume, printed on large paper, is remarkable for a 

 number of steel engravings of the scenery around Hafod, but the 

 letterpress also contains numerous observations as to the rarer 

 plants of the district. 



Perhaps the most interesting account of a modern botanical 

 excursion in Wales is that published in the Bitlletin de la Socike 

 Botanique de France, tom. x. It is by the late M. J. Gay, an acute 

 French botanist, who, in August, 1862, made a "voyage botanique 

 en Carnarvonshire," with the special object of studying the species 

 of Isoetes found in that region. He was accompanied by Prof. 

 Babington and the Rev. W. W. Newbould. "His account of the 

 flora of Snowdon is charmingly written, and contains a great deal 

 of information." 



Many other topographical works have been issued from time to 

 time containing some references to the flora of the districts with 

 which they deal. We can give only a few instances. Thus Mr. 

 S. C. Gamwell's Official Guide and Handbook to Swansea and 

 District, published in 1880 (Swansea, 8vo, pp. 194), in connection 

 with the visit of the British Association to that town, contains a 

 chapter on the natural history of the district, including a list (at 

 pp. 165-6) of "some of the rarer flowering plants and ferns of the 

 district." The British Association Handbook for Cardiff and Dis- 

 trict, edited by Mr. Ivor James (Cardiff, 1891), similarly contains 

 an article (at pp. 200-7) by Mr. T. H. Thomas, B.C. A., on the 

 botany of the district, to which we are indebted for some of the 

 information given here. 



The Traveller's edition of The Gossiping Guide to W ales (^Oswestry : 

 Woodhall, Minshall & Co.), by Askew Roberts and Edward Woodall, 

 has in its introduction an account of "A botanical ramble at Bar- 

 mouth," by the [late] Bishop of Wakefield, and " Reminiscences of 

 botanical rambles about Snowdon and its neighbourhood" by the 

 Rev. Canon Butler. These are printed, in the edition issued in 

 1893, at pp. xliii-liii. 



The most important contribution of this kind, perhaps, is the 

 article on Botany supplied by Mr. James Britten, of the Botanical 

 Department of the British Museum, to Jenkinson's Practical Guide 

 to North Wales (London, 1878, 8vo, 4th ed., 1887), where it is 

 printed at pp. Ixxxi-xcix. This gives a brief bibliographical list, 

 arranged by counties, as well as the habitats of a large number of 

 the rarer plants. 



There are also several general works on botany which give lists 

 of plants arranged according to counties. Among the earliest of 

 this kind (apart from Gough's Camden, which we have already 



