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electrifies me. Who knows but that in such a scheme 

 we might coincide ? Our enjoyments are doubled 

 by sympathy, and being shared with a friend; — 

 mine, I am sure, would be so. I never have been 

 there ; you have tried the ground before. As for 

 me, such a crowd of things to see, to search for, 

 rush into my mind, I am bewildered : I am fearful, 

 if left to myself, it would end in neither seeing nor 

 hearing any thing. You could keep me in order and 

 regulate my proceedings ; but I must fairly acknow- 

 ledge, I feel insatiable and greedy to the last degree. 



I believe Dr. Wade, at my suggestion, will trans- 

 mit to you the catalogue of the plants he found 

 in his excursion through Cunnamara. He set out 

 rather too late in the season, and his stay was too 

 short. I cannot say that my desires are incited to 

 pursue his track ; there is not reward enough for 

 the fatigue and the total want of comfortable ac- 

 commodation. One would endure a great deal for 

 Greece or Italy, and go through with alacrity ; but 

 the West of Ireland is not sufficiently tempting. 



Being obliged to stay in town the whole summer, 

 my botany was confined to my garden. I was, 

 however, part of May at Lord Besborough's in the 

 county of Kilkenny. I found the little specimen 

 inclosed, on rocks, at a place called Owning ; it is, 

 I think, the Myosotis j3 : the flowers were yellow, 

 singularly curled like a crosier. The leaves are hir- 

 sute as well as in a, but the blossom really yellow. 

 The crosier form is perhaps accidental. The Rubus 

 Idcp.us was also there. 



I shall be glad to know if you ever observed that 



