296 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
via ope ae St. Donat’s, Briton Ferry, and the great Crumlin 
Bog, near Swansea, seems to have opened much new ground. It is 
the ahaek git aay part of the journey, except the dash across Brecon- 
shire, so far as our records go. Ray crossed the county of Gla- 
ox but his ceca hardly mentions it: he was pressing on 
n and Cornwall. A short stay near Talley, in Caermarthen- 
companionship. e they harked back ee South Wales to 
Hereford, Shrewsbury, Gas El esmere ; and so to Conway and the 
coast and hills e familiar a of Anglese 
at — aon the discovery of Cyperus longus in Flintshire. 
whole, therefore, they oid pretty ae to the beaten 
track Wobh- at Bristol and in Wales; the large majority of localities 
mentioned occur and recur in the old cbineat records, some of them 
in the oldest 
Of the local Welsh botanists named by Li ghtfoot—Mr. Hol- 
combe, Skinner, Williams, “sew ee Saree and last are best known. 
The former, a Pembrokeshire clerg as a correspondent of Sir 
John Cullum and of Lightfoot; he ee no 0 doubt t partly the cause of 
journey. The late “Professor Babington pointed out (Journ. Bot. 
discovered several abe which are srosh the cribed to Cullum, 
Banks, and others—e. g., Brassica oleracea and anes arborea near 
rT : 
saw it: the well-known locality for Cyperus longus at St. David’s— 
‘in a little gully about + mile above Whitesand Bay ’—‘ which 
eto on a author ‘Davi of ‘Sir J. Cullum & Sir sla Banks as 
ev. ugh Davies, of Beaumaris, is ball mentioned once; 
he is the author of the Welsh meet and other works, but 
requires no detailed notice in this 
e plan of Lightfoot’s record rt not include a complete list 
of the plants he encountered. He aimed only eter mention of the 
rarer plants, or a criticism of former records. the body of the 
text, editorial remarks, — short and dealing with nomenclature 
or other records, have been inserted within square brackets. Com- 
parison has been made between Lightfoot’s account and the localities 
recorded—e. g., in the ye of the Bristol Coal-field (J. W. White) ; 
Flora of Somerset — urray); and the Flora of Anglesey and 
Carnarvon (J. K. Griffith). 
