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at least a foot high, covering the ground like snow. 

 In England it is less luxuriant, seldom attaining to 

 half that height. 



MOREL. This fungus is much esteemed as an order 4. 



ingredient in sauces and soups, for which purpose it 

 may be preserved dry for many months or even years. 

 Those who employed themselves in gathering morels 

 in Germany, observed that they grew most plentifully 

 where wood had been burned ; and to promote their 

 propagation they were accustomed to set fire to the 

 woods till that practice was prohibited by law. 



I have now enumerated the twenty-four Lin- 

 naean Classes, and most of the Orders, so as to give 

 a general view of the whole system ; and of those 

 that are omitted I trust you will find no inconvenience, 

 or no difficulty to supply them. 



To execute my plan of giving an example in the 

 different Classes and Orders, according to the Lin- 

 naean system, I have been under the unavoidable ne- 

 cessity of introducing many plants, not common, and 

 some, in this country, only to be found in books; 

 and as this may occasion a little disappointment, I 

 give you as a compensation the following list of flow- 

 ers, which will be in blossom all at the same time in 

 your garden at Exeter before the middle of February; 

 and thus you may enjoy the gaiety of spring when 

 others are only thinking of its approach. To these 

 I have ndded the botanical names, that your gardener 



