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which you gave me some seeds two or three years 

 since, is the most desirable plant of the kind which 

 I know. We found it in full blow on returning 

 from town, and for some months it was in gorgeous 

 flower, renewed daily. I saved much seed, and 

 have distributed it as an acquisition to every gar- 

 den. I had great pleasure in thinking Sir Joseph 

 particularly well in mind and body, notwithstanding 

 the alarm which many persons have felt respect- 

 ing the gout medicine which he has latterly taken 

 as an alterative. — Accum tells the Duke of Gordon 

 that it is Gratiola ; and that a medical friend of 

 his gives that plant with success. In looking into 

 Lewis's Materia Afedica, I was struck with the ef- 

 fects of Gratiola agreeing so exactly with those of 

 Eau medicinale. 



I found lately a lime-tree branch like a teapot 

 handle, about four feet from extremities ; but whe- 

 ther the branch grew upwards or downwards does 

 not appear, the union is so perfect. It is in a row 

 of very fine old trees. 



T. F. 



From Dr. Waterhonse. 



Dear Sir, Cambridge (America), July 24, 1811. 



I here send for the library of the Linnsean So- 

 ciety a little work I have just published, in which 

 I have endeavoured to do honour to our great mas- 

 ter. I have laboured to make him known to my 



