LIGHTFOOT’S VISIT TO WALES IN 1778 299 
Tuesday June 29. 
Found near Tintern Abbey a few specimens of Huphorbia platy- 
phyllos [E. stricta Pi by A soe Side, going from the Abbey to 
the hei where they make wires. 
entha er near the same place, and likewise just aoe 
Cheps tow Bridge on ap re hand, in an orchard on the Gloceste 
saiieg “Side of the Rive 
Thursday July 1. 
Leonurus cardiaca at Christchurch, a village sawed Cairwent 
and Newport in Monmouthshire in a Hedge on the right just 
entering the village. [C/. Smith, Eng. Flora, 8, 105, ‘‘ Monmouth- 
shire, Lightfoot in his herbarium.’ 7] 
Friday July 2. 
Serle d the Rock near Dennis Powis Castle in Glamorganshire 
[v.-c. 41] in vain for the Polypodium Cambricum said to have been 
found there. [Ray’s Fasciculus 1688 gives the locality 
Adiantum capillus veneris verus upon a Cliff facing the Kea all’d 
9 acre Cliff, } Mile from Porth Kirig church [Por ry) in 
Glamorganshire. It grows within Reac ch near the ‘oath om of the 
Cliff, where water ouzes te the Rock. [Found there mm Ed. 
Lhwyd in 1698: Phyt. n.s. Al 
Lithospermum pur, eetatden: at the West End of the same 
Cliff at the Top among the Bushes. It flowers in the Beginning 
ot June. [This seems to be the earliest notice of it in v.-c. 41.] 
Linum tenuifolium [L. angustifolium Huds.] Trifolium scabrum, 
striatum [this last a N.c.R.], Ophrys apifera, N.B. Thi 
made on chiefly of Lime Stone. [The rock is blue lias. Ed. Lhwyd’s 
letter to Dr. Richardson, 19 Sepr. 1698, recording the Maidenhair, 
ef. supra, also describes the soil :—‘ Growin wing very plentifully 
out of a marly incrustation both at Barry Is and Porthkirig in 
Glamorganshire, and out of no other matter.” My experience in 
the county is also that this fern occurs in wet oozy spots on the 
lias cliffs, and nowhere else. Cf. Dillwyn, Fauna and Flora of 
Swansea, 1848.] 
Saturday July 3 
In the Island called the flat Holmes toa of Glam., V.-C. 41) 
found the following Plants: Allium ampeloprasum near the landing 
Place [ef. Ray, Hist. 1688]. Geranium [EHrodium] maritimum all 
over the Island in great Plenty. inne toe danica? [Yes: speci- 
Bri 
North we of the Island. Ophrys apifera. Crithmum maritimum 
upon abundantly. Poa loliacea Huds. [Festuca rottboelli- 
oides Kunth 
Upon the ‘Biaap Holmes [part of Somerset, v.-c. 6] the metebes 
Smyrnium Olusatrum [recorded from this spot by Turner, 1562] an 
Ligustrum vulgare are the predominant plants upon the To op of ‘ha 
Island, Mice “tally cover it, a little of the Coniwm macu/atum is 
mixed wi gs 
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