BEDFORDIENSIS,

COMPREHENDING

SUCH PLANTS

AS GROW WILD IN THE COUNTY OF

BEDFORD,

ARRANGED

ACCORDING TO THE SYSTEM OF LINN ÆUS,

WITH OCCASIONAL REMARKS.

BY

CHARLES ABBOT, M. A, F. L. S.

CHAPLAIN TO THE

RIGHT HON. THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDALE,

VICAR OF OAKLEY RAYNES IN BEDFORDSHIRE,
AND LATE FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD.

"Full many a gem of purest ray serene

"The dark unfathom'd caves of Ocean bear:

"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
"And waste it's sweetness on the desart Air."

Gray's Elegy.

Bedford:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY W. SMITH;

MAY BE HAD OF THE BOOKSELLERS IN OXFORD

& CAMBRIDGE, AND OF G. G. & J. ROBINSONS, LONDON.

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