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and Pembroke, and had been very successful. In the envi- 

 rons of St. Vincent's Rock only (visited by every botanist) 

 they found three new British plants (one of these the Arbutus 

 uva-ursi), and afterwards several others that were either new 

 or very dubious, as not having been found by the botanists of 

 the present age. Among the former Sison verticillatum, a 

 common plant in the meadows of Carmarthenshire ; among 

 the latter Cheiranthus sinuatus, Adiantum capillus-veneris, and 

 a species of Festuca unknown to Linnaeus, but figured in 

 Bay's l Synopsis,' tab. 17. fig. 2, vide p. 403, with several 

 others I do not immediately recollect. They were bound to 

 Snowdon, in the neighbourhood of which they proposed to 

 spend five or six weeks. I have not heard of their success ; 

 but as Lightfoot had with great accuracy collected the names 

 and places of the curious plants they hoped to find from Ray 

 and others, I presume the journey, which was new to both of 

 them, has not been thrown away. You have, I believe, seen 

 Lightfoot since his Scotch tour with Mr. Pennant, and of 

 course have heard that he discovered many plants that had 

 escaped the Scottish botanists. 



The last advice I had of Linnaeus was from Mr. Banks, 

 to whom he had written but a little before, with a good deal 

 of chagrin, for not having sent him the specimens of the South 

 Sea plants he had promised him. He said " He was an old 

 man, and that if it was intended he should ever see them, the 

 sooner they were sent the better." Mr. Banks thought he 

 was well. 



I am, with great esteem, 



Your obliged friend, &c., 



R. SKINNER. 



