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ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE 



boldest cliffs, is more favourable to marine botany, 

 than any other coast in the kingdom. The great 

 variety of soil, also, resulting from numerous modi- 

 fications of granite, slate, limestone, sandstone, 

 &c. all favourable to particular vegetable produc- 

 tions, bestows upon this county a pre-eminence in 

 a botanical point of view, which is farther confirm- 

 ed by its humid atmosphere and southern latitude. 

 All these advantages taken into consideration, 

 along with its great extent and acknowledged bo- 

 tanical riches, render it a singular circumstance 

 that no Flora of it has been published. There are 

 many private individuals, who have done much to- 

 wards an undertaking of this kind ; but they, un- 

 fortunately, want either leisure or inclination, to 

 give their labours to the public. The indefatiga- 

 ble industry, and the acuteness of Mrs Griffiths, 

 have, however, been made known to the world, 

 through the medium of the Historia Fucorum, and 

 of the singular plant which so deservedly bears her 

 name. 



The following Phcenogamous Plants, which 

 may be considered as almost peculiar to Devon- 

 shire, will contribute to shew the value of that 

 county to the botanist : 



Scirpus holoschaenus. 

 Cynoglossum omphalodes. 

 Oxalis corniculata. 



