268 BOTANICAL TOURS IN WALES. 
marina, Tithymalus marit. (Huphorbia portlandica ?), Beta marina, ete., in 
Caernarvonshire and Anglesea; and in Meirionydshire I found good store 
of our Snowdon plants at Kader Idris, and Balsamina lutea (Impatiens 
Noli-me-tangere) in the high-road, near a place called Capel Begla. In 
South Wales I found several plants common which I had never seen in 
North Wales, such as Hruca sylvestris, common on the walls of their towns 
and castles, Asplenium, Ceterach officinarum, Centaureum luteum perfolia- 
tum (Chlora perfol.), Linum sylvestre, Fagus, etc. In Pembrokeshire I met 
with two which I suspect were new, viz. a Tripoliwm and an Anthyllis 
leguminosa supina flore coccineo.”’ {'This finishes the botanical portion of 
this letter. | 
From the same to the same. 
** Hay, in Brecon, September 19, 1698. 
“We searched this summer the high mountain by Brecknock, called 
Y Vaun vweh deni, but found nothing in it new, nor any great variety of rare 
plants ; the most choice were Sedum alpinum ericoides (Saxifraga opposit.), . 
in abundance, Argemone lutea (Meconopsis cambrica), Rhodea radix (Se- 
dum Rhodiola), and about half-a-dozen more of the common Snowdon 
plants. Lysimachia Chamenerion dicta is a common plant, by the name 
of Lhysier Milwr, i.e. Herba militaris (Kpilobium angustifohum), in the 
meadows throughout all the upper parts of this country ; we also met with 
Sorbus legitima and Sorbus torminalis (grown to as great a height as the 
Ornus), neither of which had ever occurred before in Wales. But of all 
those tropical plants I was surprised at none so much as the Capillus Vene- 
ris verus, growing very plentifully out of a marly incrustation both at 
Barry Island and Parth Kirig, in Glamorganshire, and out of no other 
matter; and also that Guaphalium majus americanum (Gn. margaritaceumn, 
Lin.) should grow on the banks of Rymny river (which runs altogether over 
ironstone) for the space of at least twelve miles, beginning near the foun- 
tain-head in a mountain in this county, and yet nota plant of it to be seen 
elsewhere throughout Wales. In a great lake called Lhyn Savadhan I 
found a pellucid plant I had never met with before; the leaves are extra- 
ordinary thin and transparent, in form not unlike Dock-leaves, but the 
middle rib is continued beyond the extremity, so that each leaf has a soft 
prickle at the end, by which note you will be able to tell me what it is.” 
[The rest is not botanical. ] 
From Edward Lhwyd to Dr. Tancred Robinson, giving an Account of some 
uncommon Plants growing about Pensans and St. Ives, Cornwall. 
“«. . . We have also met with the Capillus Veneris verus (Adiantum 
Cap.-V.) in abundance in the sea-cliffs about St. Ives; 2. Dr. Sherard’s 
Scrophularia Scorodonie folio; 3. Blattaria lutea (Park ?), but the leaves 
of owrs are not jagged; also all the plants mentioned by Mr. Ray to grow 
here, excepting the Graphalium marinum (Diotis mar.), which should grow 
by this town. . . .” 
