Rare Plants obfervcd in a Tour &c. 235 



clafTed among the more rare produclions of this kingdom : unlcfs, 

 perhaps, in the genera of Lichen and Fucus, which we confidered 

 as tribes fo little known in general, that ^ve thought we might be 

 excufed if we noticed all excepting the mofl common. The pe- 

 culiar feafon of the year of courfe prevented our meeting with 

 either Mufci, Jiingermannice, or Fungi. 



We have mentioned many habitats that were before quoted b\' 

 authors, but have been induced to do fo from a defire to fhew that 

 the plants flill exifl in the fame places ; and ^ve now fubmit the 

 fruits of our refearches to the Linnean Society, flattering ourfelves 

 Avitli the hope that they may hereafter prove ufeful to fomc Bo~ 

 tanifl, whom chance or inclination may lead to the f[)ots ^vhich 

 we vifited. 



Having premifed this, it only remains for us to exprefs the lenle 

 we feel of the kind attention we received from the cultivators of 

 Natural Hiftory in tlie places through which we paffed, particu- 

 larly to Stephen Bryer, Efq. of Weymouth, to the Rev. J. T. Thorn- 

 fon, and William Penneck, Efq. of Penzance, .to Thomas Webb 

 Dyer, and William Clayfield, Efqrs. of Briflol, and to Dr. Wil- 

 liams, of Oxford ; to all of whom we are happy to own ourfelvTs 

 indebted, as well for repeated inllances of civility, as for the 

 trouble they took in [>ointing out to us the plants growing round 

 their feveral towns. 



Scrapias latifolia — St. Vincent's Rock, near Briilol. 

 Valeriana rubra — Walls of GlaRonbury Abbey, and Oxford. Some- 

 times -^vith a white flower. 

 Ins /(Etidt/Jivia — Pledges about Weymouth. 

 Eriophorum vaginatum — Marfh near Penzance. 

 Carex digit&ta — St. Vincents Rock. » 



Rubia. 



