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(Digitalis purpurea), 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 

 J5^'chiura vulgare, Cichorium /''ntybus, ^nthyllis Vulneraria, jEuph6rbi« 

 amygdaloides, »S'alvia Ferbenaca, 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 then* 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." f 



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 j 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. Alledey Rectory y Aug. 24. 1829. 



Name. Place of Growth, 



Veronica scutellata - - Coleshill Heath. 



montana - - Woods at Beausal, near Wedgnock Park. < 



T^. , , , V . ( Bog near Chemsley Wood, and Bannerley 



Pmgulculavulgans - | fool, Coleshill. 



Eriophorum vaginatum - Bog below Coleshill Pool. 



polystachion - - Packington, Countess of Aylesford. 



Ax\xw(k> epigejos - - Allesley. 



T., ., V ( Banks of the Blithe, Coleshill ; Bourne 



-Dipsacus pilosus - - ^ Brooke, Shustoke. 



Sagina erecta - - Coleshill Heath. 



Hottonk palustris - - Between Coleshill and Tamworth. 



Xysimachia vulgaris - Banks of the Blithe, Coleshill. 



-^nagallis caeridea - - Corn fields, Bidford. 



tenella - - Bogs, Coleshill Heath, Sutton Park, &c. 



Campanula patula - - Allesley, Meriden, Coleshill, &c. 



latifolia - - Allesley. 



hjbrida - - Bidford. 



riola hirta - - Bidford, Birdingbury. 



palustris - - Coleshill Heath, &c. 



Ferbascum nigrum - - Stoneley. 



jSamolus Valerandi - Itchington. 



jRhamnus catharticus - Coleshill, Bidford, &c. 



Finca minor - - Allesley, Fillongley. 



Cuscuta europae^a - - Allesley. 



^upleiirum rotundifolium - Bidford, Wootton near Warwick. 



* I 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 English plants. 



f " 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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