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(Digitalis purptrea), I have understood, would hardly find a place in the 
Flora of some English counties. In the immediate neighbourhood of this 
place I should in vain seek for a wild specimen of such common plants as 
Echium vulgare, Cichorium J’ntybus, Anthyllis Vulneraria, Huphérbia 
amyedaléides, Salvia Verbenaca, Artemisia Absinthium, and several others 
equally common, while the beautiful Campanula patula*, generally, and with 
reason, considered one of our rarer natives, occurs plentifully in this and 
many other parishes in the neighbourhood. No two botanists, therefore, it 
is probable, would exactly agree in their selection of the species proper to 
find a place in a list of the rarities of one and the same district. No doubt 
I have enumerated below some plants which others would have omitted, 
and excluded some which others would have been disposed to insert. In 
either case, the apology I have to plead is the difficulty of drawing the line. 
“ Non omnes eadem mirantur amantque. 
Quid dem? quid non dem? Renuis quod tu, jubet alter.” + 
It is proper to state, that the following does not profess to be a complete 
list of all the rare plants which the county may afford ; such only are men- 
tioned as I have observed myself, or for which I have the authority of some 
personal friend; and, in the latter case, the authority for the insertion is 
always given. Yours, &c.—W.T. Bree. Ailesley Rectory, Aug. 24, 1829. 
Name. Place of Growth. 
Veronica scutellata - = Coleshill Heath. 
montana - - Woods at Beausal, near Wedgnock Park. 
rages y; we Bog near Chemsley Wood, and Bannerley 
Pinguicula vulgaris - ; 
Pool, Coleshill. 
Eriéphorum vaginatum - Bog below Coleshill Pool. 
polystachion - - Packington, Countess of Aylesford. 
Arindo epigéjos - - Allesley. 
ne oT peo of the Blithe, Coleshill; Bourne 
ipsacus pilosus - - 
Brooke, Shustoke. 
Sagina erécta - - Coleshill Heath. 
Hotton palustris —- - Between Coleshill and Tamworth. 
Lysimachia vulgaris - Banks of the Blithe, Coleshill. 
Anagallis cerulea - - Corn fields, Bidford. 
tenélla - - Bogs, Coleshill Heath, Sutton Park, &c. 
peas aa patula = - Allesley, Meriden, Coleshill, &c. 
latifolia - - Allesley. 
hybrida - - Bidford. 
Viola hirta - - Bidford, Birdingbury. 
palastris - - Coleshill Heath, &e. 
Verbascum nigrum — = - Stoneley. 
Samolus Valerandi - Itchington. 
Rhamnus catharticus - Coleshill, Bidford, &c. 
Vinca minor - - Allesley, Fillongley. 
Ciscuta europea - - Allesley. 
Bupletrum rotundifolium - Bidford, Wootton near Warwick. 
* T have been told that, some years ago, a noble lady, resident in this 
county, informed the celebrated Mr. Curtis that Campanula patula was 
common in Warwickshire. As Her Ladyship was at that time only com- 
mencing the study of botany, Mr. Curtis seemed: unwilling to credit the 
statement, and concluded that some other more common species had been 
mistaken for the one in question, assuring her, at the same time, that Cam- 
panula patula was one of our rarest Englis! 1 plants. 
+ “ All do not admire and like the same things. ... What should I 
supply ? what reject? The same which you refuse, another orders.” 
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