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n a district comprising such varieties of soil and aspect as the counties of Northumberland and Durham, owing to the height of their hills, their extent of sea-coast, and to their numerous and variously arranged strata, the botanist is naturally led to expect a copious and diversified Flora. To what extent his hopes are likely to be realised, the following little work will enable him to form a tolerably correct idea, as it contains an enumeration of the places of growth of a considerable number of plants, carefully compiled from memorandums made during the last ten years, and originally intended merely for the private use of the Editors; but which is now, with diffidence, offered to the Rh