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SELF-PRESERVATION^. 
Rosa micrantha. Near Leicester. (Midland Flot'a.J—Galium itliginosuyn^ 
Loughborough parks.— C, Witheringii. Ditto.(C.) —Symphytum tuberosum. Lough¬ 
borough (C).— Cuscuta Epithymum. Leicester (C). —Gentiana campestris. Glen- 
field (C). I^I never found it there.]— Galeopsis versicolor {G).—Mentha piperita. 
Near Leicester (C).— M. gentilis. Outwoods (C). —Thymus calamintha. Near 
Leicester (C). —Limosella aquatica. Near Ullesthorp (C). —Antirrhinum cymba- 
laria. Near Sorrel Bridge (C). —Orobanche major. Widenings (C). —Car da- 
mine impatiens. Beacon Hill (C). []I could not find it there.]^ —Fumaria capre- 
olata. Loughborough parks (C). —Hedysarum onobrychis. Bedhill (C).— Medi- 
cago maculata. Outwoods (C). —Garduus tenuijlorus, Kegworth (C). —Solidago 
virgaurea. Pocket-gate (C.)— Orchis ustulata. Near Zouch Mill (C).—O. vi- 
ridis. Near Oakley Wood {G).—Ophrys apifera. Red Hill (C). —Neottia spi¬ 
ralis. Sheepshead Field (C). —Fpipactis grandijiora. Near Long Whatten (C). 
— E. ensifolia. Piper Wood? (C). —Botrychium lunaria. Near Oakley Wood 
(C).— Astragalus hypoglottis. Outwoods near Loughborough (C). —Lathyrus pa- 
lustris. Below Bardon Plill (Botanists Guide).—Marrubium vulgare. Ives- 
head Hill (C).— Comarum palustre. Near Woodhouse. —Lathyrus nissolia. Be¬ 
tween Murton and Bottesford (Botanist’s Guide).—Myriophyllum verUcillatum. 
River Soar (B G). —Trifolium glomeratum. Near Loughborough (B G).— Leo- 
nurus cardiaca. In Farm-yards (B G). —Sonchus palustris. River Soar (B G). 
—Lactuca saligna. Budden Wood (B G). —Lapsana pusilla. Burstall Cornfields 
(B G). Chlora perfoliata. About Sproxton (B G) —Cuscuta europoea. Near 
Leicester (B G).— Delphinium consolida. Near Loughborough. —Drosera longi- 
folia. Charnwood Forest (B G)—D. rotundifolia, Chainwood Forest.— Salix 
purpurea (B G).— S> pentandra (B G). —Iris foetidissima. Frequent in the 
north of the county (B G).— Rhynchospora alia. Charnwood Forest (B G.)— 
Calamagrostis lanceolata. Buddon Wood (B G).^ —Brachypodium pinnatun. 
East side of county (B G). 
ON THE ORGAN OF SELF-PRESERVATION IN ANIMALS. 
By J. ViMONT, M. D.* 
Self-preservation is an innate sentiment which belongs to all animals. All • 
the functions, in the sense in which the word is daily used, contribute, without 
doubt, to the preservation of the species; but the expression is here employed in 
a much more limited sense, namely, to designate a mode of acting of the cerebro- 
* Translated from his Traitc de Phrcnologie Hurmine et Comparce, PhrendogimlJoumah 
•No. LI. 
