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306 ON A NEW ERRATIC BRITISH PARMELIA, 
Jolia. The want of these forms, so familiar to every botanist in the south 
of England, makes the flora of Manchester seem poor and dull. Not 
that we are destitute of striking and brilliant wild-flowers. The foxglove 
is exceedingly abundant; Cempanula latifolia amd the oriental-looking 
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common, or rather the universal plants of the country in general,— butter- 
cups and daisies, dandelions and thistles, self-heal and ox-eye, bugle and 
yellow avens, etc. 
he flora of Manchester, such as it is, has long since been exactly 
ascertained. The celebrated “ Lancashire naturalists in humble life," 
ON A NEW ERRATIC BRITISH PARMELIA. 
By tHe Rev. J. M. CnouniE, M.A., F.L.S. 
into the matter, 
One of these was covered on the upper surface with Parmelia omphalodes 
f. panniformis, on the 
then, or some neighbouring boulder, was evidentally the souree ke 
my erratic specimen had proceeded, and whence it had no doubt De 
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: » w. ; 
The discovery of this peculiar form, which, should a name be desired, 
