THE FLORA OF WALES. 13 



by one Evan Thomas (or Thomas Evans) in 1763. This transcript 

 was in 1873 in the possession of the late Eev. John Peter (loan 

 Pedr), of Bala (1838-77), who was himself an enthusiastic botanist, 

 and who contributed to the Traethodydd for 1873 (vol. xxvii., pp. 

 156-181) an interesting article entitled " William Salesbury fel 

 Llysieuwr" (i.e.W. S. as a botanist), dealing with the MS. in 

 question, and giving several extracts therefrom. I have been 

 unable to ascertain the present whereabouts of this transcript. 



The chief authorities cited by Salesbury are Dr. Turner (1520- 

 1568), the author of Historia de Natiiris Herharum, and Leonard 

 Fuchs (1501-1566), a Bavarian writer; but he also quotes the 

 authority of a learned Welsh contemporary of his — Sir Thomas ab 

 William, the lexicographer and physician of Trefriw, who is said to 

 liave written "a book of medical directions and receipts" (see 

 William's Eminent Welshmen, p. 537), or, according to another, a 

 book on herbs and their medicinal properties {Llyfr Llysiau, gyda'u 

 rlmiweddau Meddygol; see Kowland's Cambrian Bibliography, p. 113). 

 Nothing is known at present of Sir Thomas ab William's work, 

 though it was erroneously identified by one writer (Foulkes, 

 Enwogion Cymru, p. 1034) with a MS. work on medicine, formerly 

 in the possession of Mr. John Evans, of Liverpool.''' 



Hugh Morgan (fl. 1569), apothecary to Queen Elizabeth. He 

 had a botanical garden, of which frequent mention is made in 

 Lobel's Adversaria (e.g. pp. 294, 343, 493), and subsequently also 

 by Gerard, who styles him '' a curious conservator of simples." 



George Bowles, of Chislehurst (fl. 1604-50), is said to have 

 " spent some time in Wales, where his discoveries were very ample," 

 and is quoted by Johnson (see Pulteney's Sketches of Botany, i. 136). 



James Newton (1611 9-1689 ?) botanized extensively in different 

 parts of Great Britain, including South Wales. Kay, who fre- 

 quently quotes Newton, journeyed in his track to some extent. 

 His collection of plants is in the Sloane Herbarium, 205-7, 236-9). 



Morris Lloyd (fl. 1640), of Treiorwerth, Anglesey, is mentioned 

 in Parkinson's Theatnim Botanicum (p. 745) as having discovered 

 Oxyria in Wales. 



John Lightfoot (1735-1788), who was a native of Newent, 

 Gloucestershire, has also left behind him a MS. Journal of a 

 Botanical Excursion made by him in Wales ; a transcript of this 

 is preserved in the Botanical Department of the British Museum. 



William Morris (ob. 1764), Comptroller of Customs at Holyhead, 

 and better known as the brother of Lewis Morris, is also described 

 as "a good practical botanist," and was the author of a " Collection 

 of Plants gathered in Anglesey," which was consulted by Hugh 

 Davies, the author of Welsh Botanology, but has not been published. 

 There is, however, in the British Museum a copy of Kay's Synopsis, 

 ed. 1724, with MS. notes by Morris (Pressmark, 872, K. 27). 



The Rev. John Holcombe (fl. 1710-1775), of Pembroke, has 

 been described as the Pembrokeshire botanist of the middle of the 



* The account given in the above paragraph is chiefly based on the article 

 in the Traethodydd quoted above. 



