BOTANICAL TOURS IN WALES. 267 
there is a strong castle built on a high rock, close by the sands ; 
also a great level, which they call the Marsh. Hereupon grows 
in plenty Juncus acutus maritimus, sive capitulis Sorghi (Jun- 
cus acutus). Monday, June 2nd, we rode to Aberdovy, where 
lives the Lady Lloyd, who informed me that Rubia tinctorum 
(R. peregrina) was found growing wild on the rocks there by 
Dr. Bowles” (see Gerarde, Em. p. 1120, where Johnson states 
Mr. George Bowles found this plant growing wild on St. Vin- 
cent’s Rock, and out of the cliffs of the rocks of Aberdovie in 
Merionethshire). This terminates our travellers’ tour in North 
Wales. The chief plants which they collected at this early pe- 
riod of the year, and which were not noticed by Johnson, are 
these :—Rubia peregrina, Scilla verna, Matthiola sinuata, Meco- 
nopsis cambrica, Gymnadenia albida, Erodium maritimum, Inula 
crithmoides, Smyrnium Olusatrum, Hypericum montanum, Litho- 
spermum purpureo-ceruleum, Botrychium Lunaria, Potentilla 
argentea. 
The next account of the Botany of Wales is contributed by 
Mr. Edward Lhwyd, a very learned Cambrian, who was born 
about 1670 at Lhanvorde, and educated at Oxford, where he 
succeeded Dr. Plot in the curatorship of the Ashmolean Museum. 
This antiquarian is better known by his works on literary sub- 
jects than by his contributions to botany. His ‘ Archzeologia 
Britannica’ is his masterpiece, his magnum opus, a great monu- 
ment to the industry and learning of its author. He is also 
the author of a work on Fossils, systematically arranged, and the 
first paleontological work which appeared in this country. 
The following are extracted from the ‘ Philosophical Transac- 
tions ’:— 
Extract of a Letter from Mr. Edward Lhwyd, M.A., to Dr. Richard Rich- 
ardson,M.D., of North Bierly, in Yorkshire. Oxford, Nov. 24, 1696. 
«The next day after we parted at Kapel Kirig, I found plenty of the 
Bistorta and the Nasturtium petreum (Teesdalia nudicaulis ?) of Johnson, 
and I think a new plant in the small lake of Phynnon Vréch, where the 
Subularia grew. I sent roots of the Bistorta and Nasturtium both to the 
Duke of Beaufort’s and to this Physic Garden, but whether they live or 
no I know not, having not been yet in Mr. Bobart’s garden. I met with 
several rare plants in other places, as Hehiwm marinum, J. B. (Steenham- 
mera maritima), Asparagus sylvestris (A. officinalis), Hruca marina (Cakile 
maritima), Hruca sylvestris laciniata lutea (Smapis monensis), Dulcamara 
