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Potamogeton zoster (b/oHus. Asliby canal. 



Potentilla argentea. Near Poleswortli. 



Prunus insititia. In hedges. 



Pyrus communis. In hedges on the glebe, Market Bosworth. 



Ranunculus circinatus. Ashby canal. 



Jluitans., River Seme. 



pao'viflorus. A bank in Newton village. 



Rosa Sahini. In a field near Little Tvvycross. 



spinosisswia, On the road by Orton Wood. 



micrantha. In hedges : common. 



Rumex maritimus. Pond in the Old Park, Market Bosworth. 

 Sambucus ehulus. Hoad-side at Cadeby. 

 Samolus valerandi. Banks of river Seme. 

 Scirpus sylvaticus. Banks of river Seme. 



carinatus. Ashby canal. 



Sclerochloa distans. Near Congerstone. 



Silaus pratensis. In meadows. 



Sison amomum. In hedges. 



Trifolium jiliforme . On banks. 



Ulex nanus. Between Twycross and Appleby. 



Utricularia vulgaris. Ashby canal. 



Veronica Buxhauniii. Corn-fields. 



polita. Waste grounds. 



Zannichellia palustris. In ponds. 



Equisetum liyemale. In a long plantation on the left, between 

 Measham and Ashby. 



Aspidium Oreopteris. Ditches near Twycross. 

 Blechnum boreale. Do. 



Andrew Bloxam. 



Of Vital Beauty in Plants. Extracted from ' Modern Painters,' by 

 a Graduate of Oxford. 



" I PROCEED more particularly to examine the nature of that second 

 kind of Beauty of which I spoke in the third chapter, as consisting 

 in * the appearance of felicitous fulfilment of function in living things.' 

 I have already noticed the example of very pure and high typical 

 beauty which is to be found in the lines and gradations of unsullied 

 snow. If, passing to tbe edge of a sheet of it, upon the lower Alps, 

 early in May, we find, as we are nearly sure to find, two or three little 



