THE FLORA OF WALES. 11 



Iberis midicaulis (there is no attempt to give modern synonymy), "the 

 singular dortmanna lobelia,'" and " the surprising vegetable automaton 

 the rtqjpia inaritima." Even the generic names here have no capitals, 

 but this is compensated for on p. 13 of the Appendix, where we find 

 a "list of rare plants at present found in Wales" supplied by the 

 Rev. 0. M. Fielden, in which both generic and trivial names begin 

 with a capital letter. This contains such names as ''Cerastium 

 Alpmiiim" and ^' Aster Linocyris,'' fxnd indicates Seiiecio campestris 

 among the plants "only found in Wales in the British Isles"! — 

 Ed. Journ. Bot.] 



The first professedly botanical tour in Wales was undertaken in 

 the summer of 1639 by Thomas Johnson (ob. 1644), of Selby, 

 Yorkshire. He was accompanied by Mr. Paul Sone and by Mr. 

 Edward Morgan, who knew the Welsh language and was also a 

 herbalist. Their tour was confined to North Wales, which they 

 entered by way of Chester, and then journeyed by Flint, Holywell, 

 and Penmaenmawr to Carnarvon, whence they ascended Snowdon. 

 After visiting Anglesey they returned by way of Harlech, Barmouth, 

 Machynlleth, and Montgomery, being entertained at the last- 

 mentioned place by the first Lord Herbert of Cherbury. An 

 account of this tour is given in the second part of Johnson's 

 Mercurlus Botaiiicus, which bore the title of " Mercurii Botanici 

 Pars altera, sive Plantarum gratia suscepti Itineris in Cambriam 

 seu Walliam Descriptio," Lond., 1641, 8vo, pp. 37. 



This work was dedicated to Mr. Thomas Glyn, of Glynllifon, 

 Carnarvonshire, himself a botanist, who is credited with having 

 discovered the plant known as Diotis maritima on the Welsh coast, 

 near his residence. This work together with other minor pro- 

 ductions of Johnson were collected and edited by T. S. Ralph in 

 1847, under the title of Opiiscula Omnia Botanica lliomce Johnso7iii 

 (London, 4to). 



In 1633 Johnson had brought out a new edition, considerably 

 enlarged and extending to about 1650 pages, of Gerard's Herbal 

 (which had been first issued in 1597), and a reprint of the new 

 edition was also issued only three years later, in 1636. 



The earliest book on botany restricted to the plants of Great 

 Britain was WilUam How's Phytologia Britamiica, published 

 anonymously in 1650. Several of the plants catalogued are 

 described as found in Wales. 



In the autumn of 1658 John Ray took a botanical journey, 

 which he performed alone (and which was the first of his Itineraries) 

 through the midland counties of England and the northern part of 

 Wales. He left Chester (whither he had travelled from Cambridge) 

 on August 25, and then followed almost exactly the same route as 

 Johnson, nearly twenty years earlier. He quitted Welsh territory 

 on the 7th of September, when he "rode through Welshpool to 

 Shrewsbury." 



In May and June, 1662, Ray, accompanied by his friend Wil- 

 lughby, made his third and most extensive tour (his second tour 

 having been to Scotland and the North of England). The route 

 followed was through the midland counties to Chester, as before, 



