Drmdkal Botany^ \i 
Short, andimperfed, as this view of Drui- 
dical Botany may be, as delivered to us 
by Pliny, yet there can be no doubt that 
the Britons, hke all other rude nations^, 
drew their medicinal fources from the fim-^ 
pies growing around them, and were there- 
fore well acquainted v/ith common plants^ 
And, although there are not, as far as I 
know, any herbals extant in the antient 
Britifli language, or in any tranflation frora v 
it, by which the degree and extent of their 
knov/ledge may be precifely afcertained 
yet, as far as refpedis the nomenclature 
merely, fome reafonable eftimate may, I 
apprehend, be formed from the lift of Welch 
nam.es of plants, preferved by Gerard, as 
communicated to him by Mr, Davies of 
GuiJJaney, in Flintfiire : from the Irijh 
names, as we find them in Mr/HEAXON^s 
catalogue, printed in Threlkeld's Synop- 
Ji to which I may aid, the Frfe names 
communicated by the Rev. Mr. Stuarf^ 
to the late excellent and much-lamented 
botanift, the Rev, Mr. Light? ooT. Thefe 
lifts might, without doubt, be greatly am- 
plified, by the aSiduity of fliilful botanifts 
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