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" The plants of spontaneous growth enumerated in this short tour, 

 varieties being excluded, exceed six hundred, which, at a time when 

 the Cryptogaraia were scarcely noticed, and in the season when 

 neither the very early nor late plants could be seen, is no inconsider- 

 able number. In this catalogue are several not discovered in Eng- 

 land before. With this tour Johnson gave his small tract, 'De 

 Thermis Bathonicis, sive earum Descriptio, Vires, Utendi Tempus, 

 Modus, &c.' There are three small plans of the baths, and one of the 

 city, which seem to be copied from Speed's map. These are now 

 pleasing curiosities to the lovers of antiquity, and to all who contem- 

 plate the astonishing increase of the city since that time."* 



In 1641 appeared ' Mercurii Botanici pars altera, sive Plantarum 

 gratia suscepti Itineris in Cambriam sive Walliam Descriptio, &c.' 

 This is dedicated to Thomas Glynn, of Glynn Lhivona, who hospi- 

 tably entertained Johnson and his friends at his house. The tract 

 gives a pleasant account of the journey through Wales, with a catalogue 

 of the plants met with there and in other places by Johnson and other 

 botanists. In the introductory observations are answered the objec- 

 tions of those who do not recognise the utility of botanical studies; 

 and a hope is expressed that the tract will not be read except by such 

 as are disposed to be pleased with it ; " namque benevolis non 

 malevolis heec scripta sunt." 



The party, consisting of Johnson, Paul Sone, and Edward Morgan, 

 left London on the 22nd of July, 1639, travelling by Aylesbury, 

 Stratford-on-Avon, Bilsley, Henley-in-Arden, Birmingham (Bremi- 

 cham), Wolverhampton, Newport, Chester, and Stockport, where they 

 met with sorry treatment, leaving the following lines written upon the 

 wall of the bed-room, as a farewell token : — 



" Si mores cupias venustiores, 

 Si lectum placidum, dapes salubres, 

 Si sumptum modicum, hospitem facetum, 

 Ancillam nitidam, impigrum ministrum, 

 Hue diverte, Viator, dolebis. 

 O Domina dignas, forma et faetore ministras ! 

 Stock-portse, si cui sordida grata, cubet." 



Entering Wales by Flint, the travellers passed through Bangor and 

 Caernarvon to Snowdon, being, according to Pulteney, if not the first, 

 at least " among the earliest botanists who visited Wales and Snow- 



* Fac similes are given in the reprint. 



