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XXI\\ Catalogue of fome oj the mojl rare Plants ohferved in a Tour 

 through the Wejlern Counties of England, made in June 1799, by 

 - Dazcfon Turner, Efq. F. L. S. and Mr. James Sower by, F, L. 5. 



Read OEioher 1, 1799. 



T^HE expedition wliich it is in general neceflary to employ in 

 -*- palling through a large extent of country, the want of 

 proper books and other conveniences to examine what is found, 

 and, above all, the ignorance of the fpots molt likely to prove ad- 

 vantageous to his refearches, are obftacles which every traveller, 

 whole purfuit is Natural Hillory, mull encounter, in a greater or 

 Imaller proportion. Of thefe a very confiderable Ihare fell to our 

 lot, the objefts that we endeavoured to follow being far more nu- 

 merous and extenfive than our limited Icifure would allow us to 

 attain ; for it cannot be imagined that the time left for Botany 

 could be confiderable, when it is known that in little more than a 

 month Tve journeyed nearly a thoufand miles, driving at the 

 fame time to bellow attention upon the other branches of na- 

 tural hillory, the manufafturcs, and the numerous antiquities with 

 which the county of Cornwall eminently abounds. 



This, then, mull plead our excuic (if indeed an excufe be ne- 

 ceflary) for the fliortnefs of the following lill, into which we have 

 admitted no plant that we ourfelvcs did not fee growing, and 

 from ^vhich we have tried to exclude all thofe that may not be 



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