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to the West of Coldstream, ai'e judged to belong to the same description 

 of rocks, as those occupying the Eastern part of the vale of Tees, yet 

 here only the ordinary vegetables of the low country are noticed, and not 

 the natives of a more genial climate. 



The line of sea coast from Tweed to Tees, including its sinuosities, 

 cannot be less than ninety miles, and, in the course of this distance, 

 rocky cliffs, of the five formations before mentioned, are laid bare to 

 view. At their base, extensive tracts of sand bound the waves, and ma- 

 rine rocks of Sandstone, Basalt, and Limestone, covered by Algae, are 

 ranged beyond the beach. Here a rich collection of sea-side Plants 

 awaits the botanist, and, though he may be disappointed that the beau- 

 tiful Lithospermicm marilimum, which, in Ray's time grew at Scremer- 

 ston, near Berwick, has disappeared, yet Ligusticum scoticum, at Dun- 

 stanburgh, Jsperugo procumbens, at Bamburgh, Chironea littoralis, 

 Sagina maritima, and Statice Limonium, on Holy Island, certainly would 

 not be passed by unnoticed. Farther South he will meet with Geranium 

 sanguineum. Astragalus hypoglottis, Thalictrum minus, Anchusa officinalis, 

 Juncus maritimus. Convolvulus Soldanella, Rosa spinossissima, Rosa ru- 

 bella, Elymus arenarius, and Eryngium maritimum; and in the Magnesian 

 Limestone caverns, Asplenium marinum. It should likewise be remarked, 

 that many culinary vegetables, known to every one in our gardens, are 

 here truly indigenous ; for instance, Brassica oleracea, on the North side 

 of Tynemouth Castle rock, Apium graveolens, in salt marshes, Pastinaca 

 sativa, on the Magnesian Limestone cliffs, and Daucus Carota, every 

 where on the coast. 



In conclusion, I may be allowed to remark, that the Flora of our dis- 

 trict, in point of numbers and rarity of species, is one of the richest in 

 England, comprising no fewer than two thousand two hundred and 

 seventy-four well authenticated Plants, or at least such as are considered 

 so by the most eminent botanists of the present day. 



