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1758. The accurate Dryander noticed the discrepancy ; he not only 
(as has been shown) referred the Hort. Clift. Grislea to Combretum, 
but to a specimen of the plant generally called Grislea, collected in 
Caracas by a Dr. Mserter, has added the note : “ Grislea secunda 
Loefl.; di versa a Gr. secunda Sp. PI. ed. 1, quae Combretum .” So 
far as I am aware, the confusion has not since been noted. 
I have discussed the matter with Mr. Sprague, who suggests that 
the name Grislea cannot be retained for the Lythraceous plant which 
usually bears it. Loefling certainly used the name Grislea which 
was already occupied, but we may assume that he gave the name in¬ 
dependently. It is interesting to note that neither in the Iter , nor 
in the Systema , ed. x., where Grislea and Combretum appear side by 
side in their modern usage, is there any reference to the earlier pub¬ 
lications of Linnaeus. If we could agree to start again here, and 
quote “ Grislea Loefling non Linn. Hort. Cliff. & Sp. PI. ed. 1,” the 
difficulty would be removed. 
THE WELSH SALUSBUBYS. 
By A. A. Dallman, F.C.S. 
In the noteworthy volume on Early British Botanists recently 
printed by the Oxford University Press and reviewed in this Journal 
for 1922 (p. 365), Mr. B. T. Gunther, who has earned our gratitude 
for this valuable and scholarly work, gives an account of two members 
of the Salusbury family, which is of special interest to students of 
Welsh Botany. There are, however, certain points in connexion with 
the sketch of the two Salusburys (pp. 238-45) and the Lleweni 
garden (pp. 306-09) which call for comment, supplement, or cor¬ 
rection. 
William Salusbury (1520 P-1600 ?). 
In regard to his botanical work I may quote from the MS., 
written in 1917, of my forthcoming Flora of Flint and Denbigh - 
shire :— 
“ Some years ago when turning over the pages of an old volume 
of 1 Traethodydd [The Essayist] (xxiii. 1873), the writer came 
across an interesting article entitled ‘ William Salesbury fel Lly- 
sieuwr ’ ( = ‘William Salesbury as a Botanist’). In the course of 
this erudite paper (pp. 156-81), the author, the late Bev. John 
Peter (Joan Pedr) of Bala, deals at some length with an old Welsh 
botanical manuscript or herbal then in his possession. This Botano- 
logy, which had no title, was copied from an earlier MS in 1763 by 
an Evan Thomas. The original seems to have been lost, but from 
various evidence, direct and inferential, afforded by the transcript, 
Joan Pedr convincingly assigns the authorship to William Salesbury, 
famous as the first translator of the Hew Testament from the original 
Greek (compared with the Latin Yulgate) into the Welsh language. 
Although undated, the earlier MS would appear to have been written 
during the later part of the sixteenth century. A perusal of Joan 
Pedr’s article showed that this MS was of great interest from several 
