132 CHAPTER 10. 
gardening in this country at that time^ iB 
now a matter of curiofity. 
The plants of fpontaneous growth enu- 
merated in this fhort tour, varieties being 
excluded, exceed iix hundred, which, at 
a time when the cryptogamide were fcarcely 
noticed, and in the feafon when neither the 
very early nor late plants could be feen, is 
no inconfiderable number. In this ca- 
talogue are feveral not difcovered in Eng^ 
land before. With this tour Johnson gave 
his fijnall trad:, " De Thsrmis Bathonicis, 
Jive earum defcriptioy viresy iitendi tempus^ 
modus, &c." Lond. 1634. pp. 19. There 
are three fmall plans of the baths, and 
one of the city, which feem to be copied 
from Speed's map. Thefe are now plealing 
curiofities to the lovers of antiquity, and to 
all who contemplate the aftonifhing increafe 
of the city iince that time. 
This was followed by Pars altera^ 
Jive Plantar UM gratia fufdepti Itineris 
in Camhriam feu Walliam Descriptio/' 
Lond. 1 641. 8°. 
Johnson, if not the firft, was among 
the earlieft Botanifts who vifited Wales^ 
and Snowdon, with the fole intention of 
difcovering 
