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opinion, that it is originally a foreigner of fome of the fiutherrt 

 Cou: tries, and fo hardy a Plant, that it ftill keeps its time of 

 bloffoming (which in its own Country might be about the end of 

 December*) though removed hither into a much colder Climat. 

 Whether of thefe is moft probable, 1 {ball not determin, but leave 

 every Reader beft to pleafehimfelf ; and whatever more can be 

 faid of it, I (hall referve till I come into somerfet-Jbire, where it is 

 in greateft reputation, and has been moft obferved. 



41 . Whereunto perhaps may be added a kind of* Rofa Canina t 

 which we have ventured to ftile, humilior fruclu rotundiori, for that 

 it wants much of the height and ftrength of the common <w,and 

 has round leaves, and the hips comprefled at the top,and branches 

 thick fet with fmall prickles between the great ones ; whereas the 

 common one has both leaves and hip long and pointed,and only a 

 larger fort of prickles fet at fome diftance : But whether this be not 

 therofafylveftr is folio glabro,flore plane albo,oijohn Bauhin, to w ch 

 we find it moft agreeable of any defcribed *, we dare not pro- 

 nounce ; and therefore have not ventured to give it any draught, 

 but have left it to further enquiry, which that all men may readi- 

 ly make, they may find it growing plentifully in Magdalene College 

 water-walks in the way up Heddington-h\\\ ; and in many other 

 places near about Oxford. And if judged at length to be that of 

 John Bauhin : however, we find it not noted by Mr. Ray, and there- 

 fore cannot be guilty of mifplacing it here. 



42. Befide this, I met with no others cither dubious or omit- 

 ted, butfeveral of rhem difeafed,difcoloured or ftriped ; fuch 

 as P eridymenum fylveftre (with the more accurate Botanifts, rather 

 a fubfrutex than a Shrub*) found at Shotover-h'iW ; Cornutficmina 

 at Water flock', Rubui major vulgaris, in the Lane between Finjiock. 

 and Fawler ; and Sambucus vulgaris, in the hedges at Cowley, and 

 near to Oxford ; all which are ftriped yellow, but the lafttom- 

 what more remarkably than any of the former, the veins only be- 

 ing yellow, and a\\ the par enchymoita part of the leaf remaining 

 green, fo that the ftriping reprefents as it were a Network- but 

 this alfo growing out after fome time like the reft, muft be repu- 

 ted of the fame kind, and to proceed from the fame caufe. Which 

 is all I have found obfervable under the fpecies of firubs, ex- 

 cept it be worthy notice, that in the Chiltern part of Oxford- 



* Hi ft. Plant, lib- 14. cap. I, 



cantha, 



