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figure, probably representing a King of Persia, with a Persian tiara on its head, 

 in a triumphal car, drawn by two horses, and driven by a similar figure, with a 

 Persian tiara likewise on its head. On the other, a vessel navigated by rowers, 

 resembling that exhibited by the 3 foregoing coins. The piece has been well 

 preserved, and was undoubtedly anterior to the reduction of Syria and Phoenicia 

 by Alexander the Great. For that the person in the car is a Persian, we may 

 infer from the tiara on his head, which occurs on the heads of several Persian 

 figures in the ruins of Persepolis ; and that he was a royal personage, appears 

 from hence, that the kings of Persia only had their effigies impressed on the 

 Persian coins. 



That the piece then was struck in Palestine, or Phoenicia, while under the 

 domination of the Persians, there is he thinks little reason to doubt; though it 

 may perhaps be not altogether so easy to ascertain, with any precision, the time 

 when it first appeared. There is however one period, and one only, he appre- 

 hends, in the Persian history, to which this may, with the strictest propriety, 

 be referred ; and that is, immediately after the reduction of Sidon, by Artax- 

 erxes Ochus, when the Phoenicians, who had before entered into an alliance 

 with Nectanebus, King of Egypt, and asserted their independency, made their 

 submission to him. This happened in the year of the Julian period 4363, about 

 351 years before the birth of Christ. 



5. The fifth medal is extremely similar to the 4th, but very ill preserved. 

 The former however differs from the latter in this, that it exhibits a lacquey, or 

 slave, as it should seem, following the triumphal car. This renders it still more 

 probable, that the figure in that car was intended to represent a person of the 

 first distinction, or rather a Persian monarch. 



XLI. On some Plants found in Several Parts of England. By Richard Hill 



Waring, Esq. F. R. S., p. 35Q. 



Mr. W. here gives a catalogue of some indigenous plants, in places not 

 heretofore mentioned, in the counties of Salop, Stafford, Chester, Flint, Den- 

 bigh, Carnarvon, and Merioneth, that are scarce in this island, or have been 

 generally supposed to be so, or not indigenous; and occasionally of such as are 

 scarce in other counties ; and some, that though common in some other counties, 

 are scarcely or not at all to be found in these; and also of such as may be doubtful, 

 perhaps originally foreign, though generally supposed to be natives of Britain. 



After the catalogue (which it was deemed unnecessary to reprint, as the plants 

 therein enumerated are found described in the systems of botany published by 

 Hudson, Withering, and Smith) Mr. W. subjoins the following remarks : 



" Upon the whole, it may be difficult to determine what plants, if any, are 

 originally British. With regard to biennials, if there has been immemorially a 



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