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tintilled spot?. Tlius the grass of Parnassus, so plentiful on 

 the mountain sides of Wales, Cumberland, and the Scotch 

 Highlands, was found growing in great luxuriance in a 

 moist meadow near Kenilworth; the Lily of the Valley was 

 most abundant in certain clayey woods near Honiley; the 

 Butterfly Orchis could be gathered by hundreds in other 

 woods near Warwick, and the Bee Orchis was seen in great 

 profusion on railway and canal banks at Harbury and 

 Rowington; the Snowdrop was to be found here and there 

 in lonely meadows, and the Crocus and Colchicum were dis- 

 covered in spots where they could not have been planted 

 by the hand of man. Many of the Campanulas too, and 

 Geranaceae, are met with in places where they have flourished 

 in all likelihood from aboriginal times. 



Among plants which might have been escapes in remote 

 times, m.ay be named the Columbine, found in Kenilworth 

 Chace; the Eranthus, at Birdingbury; the Hellebore of both 

 species, at Pinley, where also is found the Tulipa sylvestris; 

 Solomon's Seal, near Snitterfield; the Narcissus biflorus and 

 major, and the Vinca major and minor, near Honiley. 

 Around old churchyards and the sites of religious houses 

 may be found many plants which were originally cultivated 

 for their medicinal uses, as Goutweed, &c. The Drooping 

 Star of Bethlehem is found in the open park at Oftchurch 

 Bury, and the evening Primrose on the railway bank near 

 Warwick. 



Special plants are found in certain soils; among those on 

 the Lias are found Cichorium lutybus, Clobora perfoliata, 

 Bupleurum rotundifolium, Listera ovata, Cornus sanguinea, 

 Schrophularia Elirahti, and many others which are very 

 uuirequent ou other soils; while certain sea-side plants, 



