38 Botany of the Neighbourhood of Tring. 



1 . Mustela erminea, Linn. Europe. 



2. Mustela Cicognanii, Nob. North America. 



3. Mustela boccamela, Nob. Sardinia. 



4. Mustela vulgaris, Linn. Europe. 



5. Mustela Richardsonii, Nob. (M. erminea, Rich. F. Bor. Amer.) 



North America. 



6. Mustela longicauda, Nob. (M. erminea, Rich. F. Bor. Amer.) 



North America. 



7. Mustela frcenata, Licht. A beautiful species from Mexico. 

 One of the new species is named after Dr. Richardson, the 



author of the truly excellent Fauna Boreali Americana, who 

 has done so much for American Zoology. As to the snorter 

 tailed American species, it was a source of great gratification to 

 me to be able, in a book published in Rome, to pay, by naming 

 after him an American animal, a compliment to an accom- 

 plished and most esteemed friend ; who, for upwards of four- 

 teen years had served, in diplomatic and commercial concerns, 

 with mutual satisfaction, two countries, separated by such an 

 immense distance, and so different in their institutions, as 

 the Roman and United States of America. My object was, 

 I must confess, that the good Americans, (alien I am sure from 

 proverbial republican ingratitude), should have constantly un- 

 der their eye, this very common little animal, as the perpetual 

 memorial of the worthy individual after whom I have named it. 



Art. XI. Catalogue of the rarer indigenous Plants growing in the 

 neighbourhood of Tring. By Richard Chambers, Esq. F.L.S. 

 &c. 



The town of Tring is situated on the western extremity of 

 the county of Herts, on the borders of Buckinghamshire ; 

 which, lying on the great chalk formation, that extends, with 

 but little interruption, from Cromer, in Norfolk, to the Isle of 

 Purbeck, in Dorsetshire, renders the neighbourhood highly 

 favourable for our rarer plants, particularly the Orchidea. — 

 Thinking that every addition to our botanical localities would 

 be acceptable to those who read 



" Sermons in flowers, and good in every thing," 

 I have given a list of the rarer phsenogamous plants, which I 

 have met with in my various rambles through this interesting 

 district. 

 Dipsacus pilosus. Beech woods near Buckland Common. From five 



to six feet high. 

 Asperula cynanchica. Chalky meadows around Tring. 

 Alchemilla vulgaris. Abundant in the beech woods south west of Tring. 



Extremely luxuriant, being frequently more than two feet high. 

 Atropa Belladonna. Copse on the road from London, within a mile of 

 Tring. 



