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Rosa micrantha. Near Leicester. (Midland Flora.) — Galium uliginosum. 

 Loughborough parks. — C. Witheringii. Ditto.(C) — Symphytum tuberosum. Lough- 

 borough (C). — Cuscuta Epithymum. Leicester (C). — Gentiana campestris. Glen- 

 field (C). QI never found it there/] — Galeopsis versicolor (C). — Mentha piperita. 

 Near Leicester (C). — M. gentilis. Outwoods (C). — Thymus calamintha. Near 

 Leicester (C). — Limosella aquatica. Near Ullesthorp (C). — Antirrhinum cymba- 

 laria. Near Sorrel Bridge (C). — Orobanche major. Widenings (C). — Carda- 

 mine impatiens. Beacon Hill (C). QI could not find it there.] — Fumaria capre- 

 olata. Loughborough parks (C). — Hedysarum onobrychis. Redhill (C). — Medi- 

 cago maculata. Outwoods (C). — Carduus tenuiflorus. Kegworth (C). — Solidago 

 virgaurea. Pocket-gate (C.) — Orchis ustulata. Near Zouch Mill (C). — 0. vi- 

 ridis. Near Oakley Wood (G).—Ophrys apifera. Red Hill (C). — Neottia spi- 

 ralis. Sheepshead Field (C). — Epipactis grandiflora. Near Long Whatten (C). 

 — E. ensifolia. Piper Wood? (C). — Botrychium lunaria. Near Oakley Wood 

 (C). — Astragalus hypoglottis. Outwoods near Loughborough (C). — Lathyrus pa- 

 lustris. Below Bardon Hill (Botanists Guide). — Marrubium vulgare. Ives- 

 head Hill (C). — Comarum palustre. Near Woodhouse. — Lathyrus nissolia. Be- 

 tween Murton and Bottesford (Botanist's Guide). — Myriophyllum verticillatum. 

 River Soar (B G). — Trifolium glomeratum. Near Loughborough (B G). — Leo- 

 nurus cardiaca. In Farm-yards (B G). — Sonchus palustris. River Soar (B G). 

 — Lactuca saligna. Budden Wood (B G). — Lapsana pusilla. Burstall Cornfields 

 (B G). Chlora perfoliata. About Sproxton (B G). — Cuscuta europcea. Near 

 Leicester (B G). — Delphinium consolida. Near Loughborough — Drosera longi- 

 folia. Charnwood Forest (B G) — D. rotundifolia. Charnwood Forest. — Salix 

 purpurea (B G). — S> pentandra (B G). — Iris fcetidissima. Frequent in the 

 north of the county (B G). — Rhynchospora alia. Charnwood Forest (B G.) — 

 Calamagrostis lanceolata. Buddon Wood (B G). — Brachypodium pinnatun. 

 East side of county (B G). 



ON THE ORGAN OF SELF-PRESERVATION IN ANIMALS. 



By J. Vimont, M. D.* 



Self-preservation is an innate sentiment which belongs to all animals. All 

 the functions, in the sense in which the word is daily used, contribute, without 

 doubt, to the preservation of the species ; but the expression is here employed in 

 a much more limited sense, namely, to designate a mode of acting of the cerebro- 



* Translated from his Traite. de Phrinologie Humaine et Comparee, Phrenological Journal, 

 •No. LI. 



