XXIV. | X Cataloghe of ps af the more rare 5 Plants pec in a Tour 
V/eftern Counties of England, made in Fune 1799, Ul 
ON EL. $e and Mr. ni S ies E LS 
Nx Wo a ise extent Li m M want of; 
proper books and otlier conveniences te examine what 1s found, 
and, above all, the i ignorance of the fpots moft likely to prove ad-.. 
 vantageous. his rches, a obfta les which every traveller, 
whofe ` 3 Natural Hiftory, muft encounter, in a greater or 
fmaller proportion. Of thefe a very. confiderable fhare fell to our- 
lot, tlie objects that we endeavoured to follow being far more nu- - 
_ „merous and extenfive than our limited leifure would allow us to. 
attain; for it cannot be imagined that the time left for Botan ES. 
could be confiderable, when itis known. that in little ı more thana _ 
month we journeyed | nearly a thoufand. miles, ftriving at the | 
, ame time to beftow attention. ‘upon the other branches of na- 
tural hiftory, the manufactures, and the numerous antiquities with, 
which the county of Cornwall eminently. abounds. : 
This, then, muft plead our excufe (if indeed an excufe be ne- 
ceffary).for. the fhortnefs. of the following lift, into which we have. 
admitted: no. plant that we ourfelves did not fee growing, and - 
from which we. have tried to exclude all-thofe that may not be 
daffed. 
