12 POPULAR NAMES OF PLANTS.—WAYBRED. 
is five miles from Dinas. We infer that Merionethshire does 
really produce Mentha piperita. We collected also a withered 
specimen of a Cruciferous plant, a Draba as we believed, and we 
conjectured that it was Draba incana. We have gathered many 
specimens of Draba incana in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 
some recent and some withered, like the Welsh plant. Will any 
of our obliging correspondents, acquainted with Welsh botano- 
logy, confirm this conjecture of ours, viz. the existence of Draba 
incana in Merionethshire? It is recorded by Bingley as a Caer- 
narvonshire plant, and is so by the editor of the second edition 
of the Botanist’s Guide. It is a Highland species, or belongs to 
the Highland type of distribution ; but if it occurs in Caernar- 
vonshire it may in Merionethshire, for they are contiguous coun- 
ties, and we were not on the extreme south of the latter when 
we collected this plant. 
From the Croes Foxes, a very mean inn at the junction of the 
Machynlleth and Dinas Mowddy roads, we walked along the old 
road to Dolgelly, over a spur of the great mountain Gre Idris, 
the Giant’s Chair. This was the finest walk we had as yet 
enjoyed in Wales. The morning was fine, and the views most 
magnificent :—the three peaks of the Cader on our left, the less 
lofty ranges about Barmouth, Trawsfynnydd, and Bala on our 
right, the beautifully-wooded slopes round about Dolgelly before, 
and the barren and bare Arran Mowddy chain behind us. The 
intereting plants noticed during this walk of three or four miles 
were Nepeta Cataria, Calamintha of., and Inula Helenium; the 
latter, though on the roadside, was near a cottage; its origin 
therefore, in modern botanical phrase, is suspicious. We have 
never seen it in any situation where it could be said to be even of 
¢ pontaneous growth. We gathered here the interesting Poly- 
podium Dryopteris, about a mile or so before we reached Dolgelly, 
where we halted. And here we close this portion of our account. 
On Popular Names of Plants.—Waysrep (not WaysBreap), the 
ancient English Name of Plantago major. 
The Plantago major bears the above in old herbals, and this 
name Waybrede is by same supposed to imply that the plant has 
