FLOR A BEDFORDIENSIS, COMPREHENDING SUCH PLANTS AS GROW WILD IN THE COUNTY OF BEDFORD, ARRANGED "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, 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 6 I 798. Epistle Dedicatory. To the Queen. MADAM, THE condescension manifested by YOUR MAJESTY in permitting your name to adorn and sanction the pages of the following Work, cannot but inspire some degree of confidence in the heart of the Author, conscious as he is of the inadequate value of the offering. To the august Patroness of the "HORTUS KEWENSIS, |