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Mr. W INCH 's Observations on his Flora. and Robson, and many more on the authority of W ALLIS. By the perusal of his Natural History of Northumberland, Botanists, even of the present day, may obtain useful information, though, unfortunately for his reputation as a correct man of science, two or three of the most remarkable plants, which he supposed he had discovered growing with us, were not the species he took them for ; yet, on most occasions, I have ascertained him to be correct ; and, let it be remembered, that in his time, no well executed and coloured engravings, such as those which adorn Curtis and Hooker's Flora Londinensis, or S MITH and S OWERBY'S English Botany, had been published to assist the diligent, but more commonly to spoil the indolent Botanist.

From Mr. H OGG 's valuable Tract, appended to the second edition of Brewster's History of Stockton, numerous habitats have been extracted, for the south-eastern corner of the county of Durham is propitious to the growth of several southern plants which here terminate their range VOL. II. p P