
BOTANICAL TOURS IN WALES. 265 
have been credibly informed, kept in his garden for it. Now 
the true Solidago here described and figured was found anno 
1632, by my kind friends Mr. George Bowles and Mr. William 
Coot, in Shropshire, in Wales, in the hedge in the way as one 
goeth from Dudson, in the parish of Cherberry, to Guarthlow.” 
From this point our botanical party, with the exception of “D. 
Gualterus Stonehousius,” who went direct to York, proceeded 
through Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Gloucester, and Oxford, 
to London. 
Here we take our farewell of Johnson, who subsequently is 
believed to have taken an active part in the troubles which shortly 
broke out. He is reported to have relinquished the peaceful pur- 
suit of plants, and to have wielded the sword as valiantly as he 
had in the former period of his life effectively handled the pen. 
He was a partisan of the royal party, and fell in battle. 
About twenty years later than the period of Johnson’s visit 
to North Wales, the illustrious Ray, accompanied by his friend 
Willughby, visited the Principality, and communicated what he 
observed in the third of his Itineraries which are published or 
printed in ‘ Memorials of Ray,’ a work circulated only to mem- 
bers of the Ray Society. These two friends and zealous natural- 
ists set out on Thursday, May 8th, 1662, through Northampton, 
Coventry, Stafford, Nantwich, and Chester; thence to Denbigh. 
Here Ray informs us that, “on a bushy hill, near Denbigh, I 
found Androsemum campoclarense (Hypericum montanum), Ly- 
copsis, an elegant plant (Lithospermum purpureo-ceruleum), 
Androsemum vulgare (Hypericum Androsemum), Pentaphyllum 
tormentille facie (Potentilla argentea). Monday, May the 19th: 
we this day passed two villages, Henllan and Llanywith, and 
so through Bettws to Conway, and from thence to Bangor. On 
Penmaen Mawr I found Zunaria minor (Botrychium Lunaria), 
and a sort of Sedum minus (Sedum anglicum?). Tuesday, May 
20th: from Bangor we rode to Carnethllewelyn, which signifies 
Llewelyn’s bones, a very high hill; we had not time to search 
the rocks, and so found no rare plants.” 
Our readers will note that on this mountain Johnson and his 
party were overtaken with a storm, and had only the doubtful 
aid of a timorous guide. Here however Ray noticed Cotyledon 
hirsuta (Saxifraga stellaris), which he also tells us grows plenti- 
fully on Snowdon: this was noticed by Johnson. 
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