7? Natural Histoid in the' English Counties. 



CampamddcccB. Campanula rotimclifolia. In shady places ; white. — 

 C. glomerata. Limestone, in high meadows ; white with the blue. 



Composites, Ac\\\\\ea il/illefi51ium. On high heathy ground ; of a bright 

 rose colour. — Bidens cernua. I never found the plant in this neighbour- 

 hood with any but radiate flowers. — iS'erratula tinctoria. On high ground, 

 with white floWei's. ^- Centaurea nigm. On high ground, with white 

 flowers.' " ■:'.'. -.'Oi. .>h ;>• .■'.■ii'.;,,. < r- ,.• : • 



Borrtgme<pi'.£r'thitim'Vu%^r'6. '^Road-sides ; oiuch''smaller,' and of a fine 

 rose colour. — Myositis sylvadca. - In marshy ground, with white flowers. 



^AcecB. QdiWxm^ Vulgaris. With white flowers; on heaths. — -Erica 

 Tetfalix. Wdth white flowers ; on heaths. ; ' ■ .- 



Primuldcers. Primula Vulgaris. In a shaxly place,- near Richmond^ with 

 white, lilac, and crimson flowers. ' • ■ . > »> , 



Scrophidurincv. Pedicularis sylvatica. White; in dry heathy ground. — 

 BiirtsjViJ Odontitte. White j- in corn ^fields^-^DigitaliS' 'purpurea: 'In a fir 

 wood ^with%hite flowers, on a soil' c(*nnposed of decayed vegetables. " This 

 kind of soil apfi^ars to 'agree milch thcbestwM the foxglove, sinCe^ when 

 transplanted into a garden, it never bears such large fl^&Wera^'artd is^apt to 

 branch out. 4>tM-T'.^fl<;| 



Labidtce. JJallota nigra. With white flowers, along with the common 

 Gtie.^^Betm6a>%fht^%\h: "■Wri?t^;'J'Wob<r^.-L P^w#//« 'vhlgaris. In a 

 nieaddw near ThJi*^,Wft:hM^hfteAowers exclusively. — Clinopodium vulgai-e. 

 Hedges ; ^hite. Li OHgaiinni' Vtilgare. Mountain Ihnestojpte, with white 



flowfer^: ■. ■"' '*' •">'> ''"••" •'"' ,:- ^ 



OrcMdecB. "OVchW'fefi^ifci^. •^This plant vaties very |iiuch : on high 

 limestonfe soil it ts dwarfish',' dnd Sometimes whit^oweredjl^ in low marshy 

 situations, where there happen to be trees, it grojvs to rtearly three quar- 

 ters or a yard high; and the'cbrolla presents every variety of shade, of 

 white, pink, aild sdarlet. Indeed, the odours which it disperses around are 

 almost as various aS its colburs, dh one plant rather pleasant, but in another, 

 distant perhaps only a few yards, absolutely nauseous. I have never been 

 able to find an explanation of this phenomenon (for so I may venture to 

 call it), and w6uld feel touch obliged to any person who might give a pro- 

 bable Ireasoii fbr it. It cannot depend upon any variety of soil, as they grow 

 clo^e'to each <)ther. The soil is of a black peaty kvm. 



A^phodelete. Sci\\& non-^cripta. In woods ; wl€te. — T. E. L. Rich- 

 mond, Marc^W) 'f 83€^ ' ''V ' " ' >- i'^ ' » 



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. rrq§tqnlDjepotjior ine Sale' and- Excha7ige of Objects of Natural History. — 

 A few admirer^ of th^ productions of nature here have long been anxious 

 for the establishment of a mart for the sale or exchange of their spare spe- 

 cimens, and have constantly, but in vain, expected that some of your town, 

 readers would have answered the repeated calls that have been made by 

 your correspondents on the subject. Disappoint^ in the expectation of 

 seeing one established in London^ they have como- to the determination of 

 establishing one in this town, which, in addition to the advantages of a 

 gencriil thoroughfare and a central situation, has constant intercourse with 

 the principal sea-ports of Ireland, so that there would be no difficulty in 

 forwarding a parcel from any part of the kingdom. The necessity of such 

 an institiition is particularly felt by those who wish to collect the produc- 

 tions of our own country, which seem to be so much beneath the notice of 

 dealers, that specimenSj of which any quantity might be got, are not to be 

 met with on sale ; whilst others, the most rare and valuable, are' doortied to 

 remain in the hands of the finder, instead of enriching his cabinet as they 

 ought to do with the productions of other parts of the country. As an in- 

 stance of this, I may mention the crinoidal remains, and other fossils, from 

 the mountain limestone, so rarely to be met with in collections, many un- 



