500 



The following figures will exemplify the many distinctive charac- 

 ters of these plants. 



Fig. 1. End of a flowering branch and capsule of C. latifoliutn, a Hab. Baltasound 



Fig. 2. The same of C. latifolium, (jlaciale : Alps of the Vallais, Switzerland. 



Fig. 3. C. alpinum, a. Clova, Forfarshire. Fig. 4. C. alpinum, M (C. latif ) : Clora. 



Thos. Edmonston, jun. 



Baltasound, Shetland, 

 January 23, 1843. 



Art. CXXIIT. — Catalogue of Plants observed in the neighbourhood 

 of Daventry, Northamptonshire. By Mr. W. L. Notcutt. 



In forwarding a list of the plants of Daventry, Northamptonshire, 

 I have thought that a sketch of the general character and geological 

 formation of the neighbourhood might not be unacceptable, as I think 

 it of importance to trace the connexion between Geology and botani- 

 cal Geography. Daventry is a market-town seventy-two miles from 

 London, and is situate in the western part of the county of Northamp- 

 ton. The geological formation upon which it stands is the lower 

 oolite, which however terminates at the distance of two or three miles 

 on the north-western side of the town, where the lias formation ap- 

 pears from beneath it : on the other side it extends over nearly the 

 whole county of Northampton. In many parts of the neighbourhood 

 the coarse yellowish oolitic limestone lies within two or three feet of 



