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Snowdon Bulb.” In R. Syn. ed. 3, 374 (1724), Dillenius prints a 
note from Richardson in which he refers to his finding the plant in 
Lloyd’s company and modifies his name as follows : “ Bulboeodium 
Alpinum, pumilum, juncifolium, flore unico : intus albo extus squalide 
rubente.” He continues : ‘’Flos ei hexapetalus, proplantulse modulo 
magnus, figura & magnitudine ad forum Lujulaj nonnihil accedens.” 
A rather charming figure (t. xvii. fig. 1) accompanies the description. 
Some account of the 1700 expedition will be found in Richard¬ 
son’s undated letter to Sherard (Richardson Corr. p. 237) assigned by 
his editor, Dawson Turner, on internal evidence, to April 1, 1726. 
In this he describes the Lloydia plant as “ springing out of the 
naked rocks ” ; “I brought severall bulbs from thence; but they 
would not flower in my garden, but in a year or two died.” The 
letter was intended, as Turner suggests, “ to guide Dillenius and 
Brewer and [Littleton] Brown in the tour they undertook a month or 
two afterwards.” This is made evident by the letter of Dillenius to 
Richardson, which appears in the Correspondence of Linnceus , ii. 
131-143, in the course of which the former thanks Richardson “ for 
your directions, which have proved very useful to us.” This letter 
contains an account of the tour in company with Brewer (who had 
also seen and followed Richardson’s directions) which was of two 
months’ duration. They did not succeed in finding Lloydia, and 
Brewer, who made two expeditions in search of it in June and July 
of the following year was equally unsuccessful. This we learn from 
the diary of Brewer’s “ Botanical Journey through Wales in the year 
1726 ” [1727] of which a transcript by Sigismund Bacstrom, which 
may form the subject of a future note, is in the Department of 
Botany. From this it would seem that Richardson had joined the 
expedition : the passage relating to it runs thus : 
“ July 10. We went to Trigfylchan with Mr. Griffith [subse¬ 
quently mentioned as W. Griffith, and probably, as has been sug¬ 
gested, the father of J. W. Griffith] who was guide to Consol and 
Mr. Sherard and Dr. Richardson, to the place in search for Bullosa, 
but we did not find it, tho’ Dr. Richardson says we were upon the 
very rock, being very dark and wet weather; Griffith said that 
he carried us to every place where the said gentlemen went after 
plants that day and in particular to the place where he says 
they searched for Bullosa , but our search this day was as fruitless as 
theirs.” It would seem from this that two separate parties visited 
the locality ; Dillenius (in 1776) mentions no other companion than 
Brewer, and the latter clearly did not accompany Richardson and 
Sherard. In a letter to Brewer, dated Dec. 20, 1726—the first of 
seventeen in the Department of Botany, the contents of which are 
summarised in Druce and Vines’ account of The Dillenian Her- 
laria , pp. lviii-lxix—Dillenius reports that [Dr. Richardson] “ tells 
that it is a very hard matter for anybody to find it that does not know 
the particular place exactly ” ; this suggests that the visit of Sherard 
and Richardson mentioned by Brewer may have been early in 1727: the 
matter is of small importance, but is mentioned lest future writers 
should think that it has not been fully investigated. It may be 
