164 Natural History in the English Counties. 
Scandix odorata - - Balsal Temple. 
Pimpinélla magna * - Allesley, Meriden, &ce. 
Sambucus /’bulus - = Grafton, Mr. Purton. 
Parnassia palistris — - - Bogs, Coleshill, Warwick, &c. 
Drésera rotundifolia - Coleshill Heath. 
Myostrus minimus - = Coleshill. 
Galanthus nivalis - + Packington, Countess of Aylesford. 
Leucodjum zstivum = = - Near the Avon, Stratford, Mr. Purton. 
Tilipa sylvéstris - - Allesley. 
Ornithégalum umbellatum 
Meadows near the Avon, Warwick. 
Narthecium ossifragum 
Bog below Coleshill Pool. 
Convalliria majilis oe ; Woods, Allesley and Corley; Bentley 
alae ease Park, Hay Wood. 
Triglochin palistre — - - Bogs, Coleshill. 
Epilobium angustifolium  - Ryton Wood. 
Chlora perfoliata - - Between Stratford and Alcester. 
Pool in Chemsley Wood, Bog below 
Vaccinium Oxycdéccos Fe. Golesi Pool, tae 
Daphne Lauréola - - Warwick, Itchington, &c. 
Polygonum Bistérta - Allesley, &c. 
Paris quadrifolia = - Bannerley Rough, Coleshill, Fillongley, &e. 
Pyrola média - - Woods, Mer iden. 
Chrysosplenium alternifolium Balsal Temple. 
Cotyledon umbilicus - Ruins of Maxstoke Priory. 
Sédum Telephewm - - Woods, Allesley. 
Cratze‘gus torminalis - Claverdon. 
Spiree’a Filipéndula - - Between Marton and Southam. 
Rosa tomentosa + - - Allesley, &c. 
Donniana - - Allesley, Claverdon. 
micrantha - - Allesley , Bidford, &c. 
sepium ? f “ - Near Bidford Grange. 
Potentilla argentea a - Coleshill Heath. 
* Judging from its frequent and abundant occurrence on banks and mar- 
gins of fields in this neighbourhood, I should hardly have thought of intro- 
ducing this plant into the above list. I find it, however, classed among 
our rarer species in Turner and Dillwyn’s Botanists Guide, and have here- 
tofore been applied to by a botanist to forward roots to him from this 
neighbourhood into Yorkshire. 
+ Common enough in this county; I include it in the above list, not on 
account of its rarity, but because it is often overlooked or taken for a variety 
of Rédsa canina. 
{ This rose, which I discovered some years since in a rough pasture near 
Bidford Grange (see Purton’s Midland Flora, vol. iii. p. 41. i and forwarded 
to the Hor ticultural § Society, has, I understand, much perplexed the bota- 
nists connected with that establishment. If I might venture an opinion in 
a case where far better judges than myself entertain doubts, I should be dis- 
posed to consider this rose as merely a strong variety of Rosa canina. 
The difficulty, however, of determining the species of this genus is become 
almost proverbial : ax Fungum et Rosam,” says Scopoli, “ quisque noscit, 
species vero genuinas utriusque generis ne botanici quidem consummati.” 
“ Every one can tell a Fungus ‘and a Rose; but to distinguish the true 
species of each is scarcely within the power of even a first-rate botanist. =) 
T have been told of a justly celebrated botanist, and an able writer too on 
this very genus, who, being asked how many true species of rose he be- 
lieved there were, replied somewhat dryly, “I really cannot say, but I am 
guite sure there is one.” 
