108 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
in his own hand; two commonplace books be 1031), ania in 
French, partly in Latin, containing fragments of a French novel, 
of a translation of Petronius, and other mac of moisbellaniocs 
character ; a pocket-book (1036) written in dite with drawings; 
a folio volume (993) of diagrams of a treatise on the elements o 
—— and fortifications; and some “ receits for severall dis- 
eases” in 1001. The contents of most of these are detailed i in the 
folio > incomplete “ Catalogus MSS. Bibliothece Sloanianz.’ 
he most interesting of Bonnivert’s MSS. is the small volume 
(2038) described in the folio catalogue as “The journal of Mr. 
Gedeon Bonnivert, one of a troop of ween ee oes from London 
the 6th 
to join King William in Ireland; fro of June, 1690, to 
the end of July of the same year: td which is annexed a brief 
description of Ireland, accompanie drawings 
a page, and the “ journal ”’ hips occupies eleven folio 
Bonnivert left London for Ireland on June 6: von | hig way he 
“ went to meet a friend at Litchfield; about toa miles this side 
of Cosswell there is a stone bridge full of the plant called Maiden 
hair.’ He gives a pleasant description of Chester, and on the 
29th arrived at Donahadee en route for Belfast, ‘‘ w" is a large 
and pretty town, and all along the road you see an arm of the 
sea on y" left and on the right great high rocky mountains w™ 
at the same time,” and was sent to Dublin. He rejoined the army 
on July 12, but was again invalided. After the raising of the 
siege of Limerick he expected to return he England, but was sent 
to Lurgan: here the diary dinklied Ae 
We next hear of Bonniv af “Dow weester, Northants, 
whence (on June 23rd 1696) ie eid to Sloane (4036, f. 264), 
taking him for his book (doubtless the Catalogus of Jamaica 
plants which appeared in that year), and describing at length 
a plant which he had found “in a bogg at y* lefthand 
going to Kate Sutton” which he could not “find describ’d 
in Mr. Ray’s Synopsis.” The elaborate description which 
follows shows at once that this was Parnassia, as Sloane 
informs him in a letter dated October 15 of the same year (4068, 
f. 14), mentioning it under its old name Gramen Par oe " va 
Parnassi: but who the divell is y® man th si knows no more of 
simples ‘than I, could have look’d for that plant amongst y° 
ramin 
In his first letter, in which the Parnassia locality i is further 
described as “‘ between Tocester and Borshott,”’ he mentions from: 
