RARE AND REMARKABLE PLANTS. 131 
Dotives of the Mare amd most Aemark- 
able laute in the Heighhourhaadg 
of Dungter, Blue Ancher, 
Alinehend, &r. 
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. BY MISS ISABELLA GIFFORD. 
AM quite aware that in offering so slight a sketch as 
I the present to the notice of this Society, I can give 
but a very imperfect idea of the rich and varied Flora of 
this part of Somerset. It is only after a careful enumera- 
tion of species, and by a comparison of their greater va- 
riety or frequency in the adjoining distriets, that the Flora 
of any particular distriet can be correetly estimated. Were 
such comparison fully carried out between Somerset and 
Devon, I have no doubt that the number of species in this 
county would equal those recorded in Devon, and that this 
distriet, from its bordering the sea, would afford many 
species not found in any other parts of the county. 
Co.a:neneing with such, I would notice Cochlearia danica, 
a plant which oceurs in erevices of the rocks near the sea 
under Greenaleigh and at Bossington Point. Arenaria pe- 
