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strong currents towards Essequibo and the Gulf of Paria, becoming still 

 stronger as they approach the Amazon river. The pororoca destroys the 

 shores entirely between Fort Macapa and Cape North ; and, if there were no 

 rocks, the beach would be still more dismantled, and the mouth of the Ma- 

 ragnon turned altogether to the north. We owe these details to M. 

 Gutsmuths. {Hertha, ix. 5. p. 581.) 



• Art. II. Natural History in the English Counties. 



Plants and Insects noticed in the Neighbourhood of the City of Bath. — 

 Sir, I send you the subjoined lists of the rarer plants and insects which I 

 have found in this neighbourhood, which, if you think worthy a place in 

 your entertaining Magazine of Natural History, I shall continue at intervals. 



Plants. jLigustrum vulgare, Circae^a lutetiana, jDfpsacus sylvestris, San- 

 guisorba officinalis, Cornus sangulnea, J?orago officinalis. Campanula rotun- 

 difolip, Trachelium, and glomerata; Colchicum autumnale, Fiola tricolor 

 and Fiola tricolor var. arvensis sim., *S'olanum Dulcamara, ^lisma Plantago, 

 Epilobium hirsutum and parviflorum, Daphne Laureola, Adoxa moscha- 

 tellina. Cotyledon umbilicus, Butomus umbellatus, Silene inflata, O'xalis 

 acetos^lla, ijchnis dioica, white and red ; JLythrum Salicaria, Reseda 

 Luteola and lutea, .S'pirae^a Ulmaria, Fragaria vesca, Chelidonium majus, • 

 JViiphar lutea, Jnemone nemorosa, Cistus Helianthemum, Mentha hirsuta. 

 Thymus Calamintha, Linjiria Cymbalaria, spuria, and vulgaris ; G^eranium 

 lucidum, Mk\\B. moschata, iiTypericum perfoliatum and quadrangulum, TVa- 

 gopogon prat^nsis, 6'nicus acaulis, JKupatormw cannabinum, (Xrchis morio, 

 maculata, and mascula; Gymnadenia conopsea, Lister« ovata, Typha lati- 

 folia, Poterium Sanguisorba, Humulus Lupulus, Tortula inervis, subulata, 

 and muralis, J5ryum arg^iteum, Gymnostomum trunculatum, Orthotrichum 

 anomalum. 



Insects. Carabus volaceus, iucanus paralleloplpedus, Dyticus margina- 

 lis and punctulatus, Timarchia tenebricosa, Staphylinus olens, Hygrometra 

 stagnorum, Nepa cinerea, Panorpa communis, Hipparchia Tith6nu«, Pontia 

 wapi, rapae, and chariclea Steph. ; iSphinx /igustri, PygaeVa Buc^phala and 

 A'rtia caja. I am, Sir, &c. — C. C. Babington. 7. Hanover Street^ Bath, 

 July 8. 1828. 



List of Plants found in Warwickshire^ varying with White Flowers. — 

 Sir, Perceiving that some of your correspondents have noticed the occur- 

 rence, in various situations, of SciWa nutans with white flowers^ I am in- 

 duced to hope that the following list of white-flowered varieties, which I 

 have myself observed in a native state in this county (Warwickshire), may 

 not prove wholly unacceptable. 



Scabiosa arvensis and succisa, JSorago officinalis, found at AUesley. Pri- 

 mula vulgaris, at Allesley, and at Wooton near Warwick; with a red 

 flower, at Allesley. Campanula rotundifolia, at Allesley and at Coleshill; 

 latifolia, at Allesley. A very beautiful variety of this plant occurs commonly 

 in the neighbourhood of the lakes in Cumberland and Westmoreland, with 

 very pale flowers, tinged with deeper blue towards the calyx. In some 

 parts of those counties this pale variety is more abundant than the dark- 

 blue kind. Campanula patula, by the side of the old turnpike road, at the 

 bottom of the hill near the village of Meriden. Plants of this white 

 variety, raised from seed gathered in the above situation, and introduced into 

 the garden, have for some years continued to propagate themselves spon- 

 taneously, riola odorata, at Allesley, &c. ; with a red flower, at Castle 

 Hill, Allesley, also on the mount at Warwick Castle ; canina, at Coleshill ; 

 ■with a very pale blue flower, near Coleshill Pool. iScilla nutans, Colchicum 

 autumnale, at Allesley, &c. Faccfniunj Myrtillus (fruit and flower white). 



