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Natural History m the English Counties. 



A List of Plants flowering late in the Season in the Vicinity of Plymouth, compared with the 

 Periods assigned for their flowering near London in the last edition of the Hortus Kfwensis : 

 from the Observations of Mr. George Banks, Lecturer on Botany, &c., Devonport. 



Middlesex. 



Plants collected by the Rev, S. Palmer of Chigwell, Essex. The rather 

 uncommon marked with a star (*). — Parietkria officinalis, -Antirrhinum 

 Cymbalaria, walls, Highgate. ilfelampyrura prat^nse, copses, Highgate. 

 Scutellaria galericulata and *minor, Turnham Green, marshes. — S.P. Sept. 

 1828. 



SUEREY. 



Plants collected by the Rev. S. Palmer of Chigwelly Essex. The rather 

 uncommon marked with a star (*), the more rare with a cross (f). — 

 t Impatiens Nolitangere J, River Wey, near Guildford, flowers in August. 

 * Ferbascum iychnitis, * pulverul^ntum, * nigrum, and * virgatum, road- 

 sides, between Guildford and Shalford, and on Shalford Common. * Ga- 

 Mnthus nivalis. Stoke Park, Stoke, near Guildford, t Ornithogalura 

 pyrenaicum. Send, near Ripley, flowers in April and May. f ^llsma 

 Damasonium, flooded hollows on Shalford Common. * Chrysoplenium 

 oppositifolium, between Shalford and St. Martha's Chapel, in moist copses. 

 5axifraga granulata, * Clinopodium vulgare, St. Catherine's Hill, near 

 Guildford. * iathrae'a squamaria, in a field between Chantry Downs and 

 Shalford Turnpike. Antirrhinum spurium, corn fields near the Telegraph, 

 Guildford, f /satis tinctoria. This rare plant (the woad of the ancient 

 Britons, from which they extracted a dye to stain their skins) grows on the 

 chalk rubbish at the pits between Guildford and Shalford. * Geranium co- 

 lumbinum, at Losely, near Guildford. * Convallaria maj^lis, copse near 

 Worplesdon. *5utomus umbellatus, Thames, between Kew and Richmond. 

 .ErJgeron acre, Kingston. — S. P. Sept. 1828. 



§ Our favourite balsams are of this family. 



