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Natural History in the English Comttes, 



^candix odorata 

 Pimpinella magna * 

 iSambucus ^'bulus 

 Parnassia palustris 

 Drosera rotundifolia 

 Myosiirus minimus 

 Galanthus nivalis 

 ieucojum ajstivum 

 Tulipa sylvestris 

 Ornithogalum umbellatum - 

 Narthecium ossifragum 



Convallaria majalis 



Triglochin palustre 

 EpUobium angustifoliimi 

 Chlora perfoliata 



Faccinium Oxycoccos 



Daphne Laureola 

 Polygonum Bistorta 

 Paris quadrifolia 

 Pyrola media 



Chrysosplenium alternifolium 

 Cotyledon umbilicus 

 »S!edum Tel&^hiuvi 

 Cratae^gus torminalis 

 jSpirae^a Filipendula 

 i26sa tomentosa t - - 



jyowaidna 



micrantha 



sepium ? J - 



Potentilla argentea « 



Balsal Temple. 

 Allesley, Meriden, &c. 

 Grafton, Mr. Purton. 

 Bogs, Coleshill, Warwick, &c. 

 Coleshill Heath. 

 Coleshill. 



Packington, Countess of Aylesford. 

 Near the Avon, Stratford, ^Ir. Purton. 

 Allesley. 



Meadows near the Avon, Warwick. 

 Bog below Coleshill Pool. 

 5 Woods, Allesley and Corley ; Bentley 

 I Park, Hay Wood. 

 Bogs, Coleshill. 

 Ryton Wood. 



Between Stratford and Alcester. 

 5 Pool in Chemsley Wood, Bog below 

 I Coleshill Pool, &c. 

 Warwick, Itchington, &c. 

 Allesley, &c. 



Bannerley Rough, Coleshill, Fillongley, &c. 

 Woods, Meriden. 

 Balsal Temple. 

 Ruins of Maxstoke Priory. 

 Woods, Allesley. 

 Claverdon. 



Between Marton and Southam. 

 Allesley, &c. 

 Allesley, Claverdon. 

 Allesley, Bidford, &c. 

 Near Bidford Grange. 

 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 Botanisfs Guide, and have here- 

 tofore been applied to by a botanist to forward roots to him from this 

 neighbourhood into Yorkshire. 



f 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 Posa canina. 



% This rose, which I discovered some years since in a rough pasture near 

 Bidford Grange (see Purton's Midland Florae vol. iii. p. 41.), and forwarded 

 to the Horticultural 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 Posa canina. 

 The difficulty, however, of determining the species of this genus is become 

 almost proverbial : " 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.") 

 I 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, bu,t I am 

 quite sure there is owe." 



