294 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
I dare say you are right with regard to the Scirpus [found near 
Pembroke]; it appeared to me diecious when I gathered it, but I 
had not time to dissect it. 
I have very great Reason to believe the Cistus polifolius ieacre 
by him on Brean Do and Apenninus to be the same, & ou 
Cistus from Gloddaeth to - the C. G. mario [Helianthemum mari- 
folium Mill}. The Veronica from the me Place I verily believe to 
be the _— Pray are your ie of that from St. Vincents 
Rock arriv’d? From the roots I sent which are now growin 
bids the fairest to be V. hybrida, tho’ there is very little difference 
between the two species at best, as I yesterday observ’d by co 
paring = two growing together at Kew 
Thirteen Hundred Specimens of Plants from the Cape cannot fail 
to sears with many Monsters, & your kind Invitation to me to 
come & see them is too provoking for me to refus 
ry. 
I have just receiv’d a Letter from my Friend, Mr. Williams, in 
Anglesey, containing some specimens of the Cistus guttatus [Heli- 
anthemum Breweri Planch.] with Petals. Some of them I thought 
pike “* acceptable to you. I have therefore divided the Cargo ‘for 
your service. He says in his Letter that the Petals are so extremely 
Higualbus that ona will scarcely bear to be look’d at, much less 
sree 0. in their proper position hey are, however, I believe, 
uch fairer saris than those you receiv’d from him when in 
Wales 
Uxbridge. July 26th 1774. 
The M8. itself, which i . es gs tcp is Solander’s transcript 
of Rae cg original r t is on the whole accurate: an 
asional misunders ikaiatteg of Solander’s is igus easy to detect, 
died reference to a map puts the difficult Welsh names right. Perhaps 
the chief interest of Solander’s work for us lies in the fact that it 
eritieally dusngetahed 
oot’s account has never before been published in full. 
Reference to it may, however, be found in Dryander’s Catalogue of 
anks’s Library, vol. iii. p. 188; extracts from it have appeared— 
é.g., In "Fou urn. Bot. 1891, P- , and referenc nce made to its records 
The excursion lasted from 25 June to 16 Aug. 1773; not 177 5, 
as in Solander’s transcript: it was the year after Lightfoot’s tour 
in Scotland. He was living at Bulstrode at i time; there he 
acted as Chaplain to the Duchess of Portland. It will be ‘of interest 
to trace out the motives which probably led him to adopt this 
partic te. 
* But see Petiver, Conc. Gram, No. 101, for an earlier gathering of the plant, 
