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Dr. Dillenius found this plant near Worcefter, 
and took it for a Non-defcript, though poflibly it may 
be the plant, hinted at by Merret in his Pinax , un- 
der the appellation of Rapuntium Jiore purpureo . 
It has fince been found in Sweden, though Lin- 
naeus makes no mention of it in any of his works 
before the Species Plantarum : elfewhere we have 
no intelligence of it. We have no doubt but ours 
is the plant defcribed by both thefe authors ; but 
if I might be allowed the conjecture, I fhould 
think it was known to Parkinfon, and is the plant, 
which he defcribes and figures under the title of 
Rapunculus nemorofus. Theat. Bot. p. 649. < 5 f o. 
He tells us that the plant he defcribes under that 
name grows naturally' wild in England ; and tho’ 
his figure is very aukward, and his description 
very vague, yet both anfwer better to our plant 
than to any other of the Bell-flowers, which grow 
fpontaneoufly in England; Parkinfon took his 
plant to be the Rapunculus nemorofus of Taber- 
nremontanus and the Rapunculus campanulatus ne- 
riifolius tertius of Thalius, or the nemorofus an- 
guflifolius magno flore major of C. Bauhine pin. 
9}. N p . 11. But M. Vaillant, (Bot. Parif. p. 27 ) 
and Dr. Haller (Enum. Stirp. Helv. p.494.) apply 
all thefe names to the Peach-leaved Bell-flower : 
hence if thefe two able botanifts are right, Parkin- 
fon muft have been miffaken, as the Peach-leaved 
Campanula, wh : ch he defcribes and figures like- 
wife in the fame chapter, is not a native of 
England. 
Whence comes it that profeffor Linnteus in the 
Flora Anglica has referred his trivial name of the 
plant 
