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XV. Plante Eboracenfes; or, A Catalogue of tbe more rare Plants which 
grow wild in the Neighbourhood of Caftle Howard, in the North Rid- 
ing of Y: i difbofed according to the Linnean Syflem. By Mr. 
Robert Teefdale, F. L. S. 
Read Feb, 7, 1792. 
URING the time I refided at Caftle Howard, in the county 
: of York, fome of my leifure hours were employed in her- 
borizing: my bufinefs not admitting of long excurfions, it enabled 
me to take the more painsin the collecting of the plants of my own 
neighbourhood. 
The woods about Caftle Howard are extenfive, and the bogs 
near Terrington produce many valuable acqnihope to the curi- 
ous — 
The downs called the Wolds are likewife Bir sth of fome 
. good plants, 
I feldom extended my rides, or walks, upon thofe botanical excur- 
fions, more than ten or fifteen miles from homes and upon fumming 
up the plants that I had obferved, and collected, they amounted 
to nine hundred and fixty. This I prefume, will be thought 
a great number to be found, in fo fmall a fpace of country, by 
one collector; as the learned Dr. Martyn tells us, in his Plantæ 
Cantabrigienfes, that with the indefatigable labours of Mr. Ray, 
8 Mr. 
