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XXIV. Catalogue of fome of the more rare Plants ohferved in a Tour 

 through the Weflern Counties of England^ made In June 1 799, by 

 Daivfon Turner, Efq. F.L.S. and Mr. James Sowerby, F.L.S. 



Read OSlober i, 1799. 



THE expedition which it is in general neceflary to employ lA. 

 paffing through a large extent of country, the want of 

 proper books and other conveniences to examine what is found, 

 and, above all, the ignorance of the fpots moft likely to prove ad'- 

 vantageous to his refearches,. are obllacles which every traveller, 

 whofe purfuit is Natural Hiftory, muft encounter, in a greater or 

 fmaller proportion. Of thefe a very confiderable fhare fell to our 

 lot, the objects that we endeavoured to follow being far more nu- 

 merous and extenfive than our limited leifure would allow us to 

 attain J for it cannot be imagined that the time left for Botany 

 could be confiderable, when it is known that in hftle more than a' 

 month we journeyed nearly a thoufand miles, ftriving at th'e 

 fame time to beflow attention- upon the other branches of na- 

 tural hiftory, the manufactures, and the numerous antiquities with, 

 which the county of Cornwall eminently abounds. 



This, then, muft plead our excufe (if indeed an excufe be ne- 

 ceflary) for the lliortnefs of the following lift, into which we have 

 admitted no plant that we ourfelves did not fee growing,,.and 

 from which we, hav.e tried to exclude all thofe that- may not ba 



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