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their order have been most devoted votaries of Flora, and several 

 of them have made costly offerings at her shrine. The intelli- 

 gent reader will recall to mind the honoured names of Ray, 

 Martyn, Uelhan, Sibthorp, Abbott, etc. etc., together with the 

 late Dean of Manchester. Etiquette, delicacy, good feeling, and 

 respect, forbid all mention of the merits of living botanists of 

 the sacred or of any other order; but the Index and Contents 

 of the ^Phytologist' during the last five or six years bear ample 

 testimony to the zeal and activity of the clerical members of 

 the fraternity. 



The census of the plants of Devon, as recorded in Mr. Raven- 

 shaw's List, shows a great increase during the last thirty years. 

 In Jones and Kingston's Flora the number of species does not 

 amount to 800, witli the Ferns. The number in the recently 

 published list is not far short of 1,100, including the Ferns and 

 the Fern allies. The increase in thirty years is consequently 

 nearly 300. In number of species Devonshire is now the richest 

 county in England. Yorkshire, the largest English county, pre- 

 viously had the reputation of possessing the richest comital Flora 

 in the British Isles. It must now yield the palm to its fair 

 Devonshire sister. In Yorkshire the Flowering Plants and Ferns, 

 exclusive of alien species, are about 1,000. This number is ex- 

 ceeded by the number in Devon. 



Probably the author of the Devon list has not been so parti- 

 cular in marking the naturalized and doubtful species as the 

 author of the Yorkshire Flora. Probably several of the plants 

 deemed alien in the Yorkshire Flora are properly treated as 

 true natives in that of Devon. There are certain plants of De- 

 vonshire which do not reach so far north as Yorkshire, and 

 there are some Yorkshire species which do no reach so far south 

 as Devon; consequently the numerical difference between the 

 plants of the two largest English counties is not very remarkable. 



If the plants of Devonshire be compared with those of Aber- 

 deenshire, which is only about as far north of the extreme north 

 of Yorkshire as the middle of the latter is from the south of 

 Devon, the numerical difference is strikingly considerable. The 

 number of species, exclusive of Ferns, common to those two large 

 counties, Aberdeen and Devon, is about 550; or not many more 

 than half of the Flowering Plants of Devon are found in the 

 county of Aberdeen. For example, the Umbelliferce of Devon- 



