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Let us, however, take a little ride together upon our 
favourite north and south British steeds, and com- 
municate our discoveries to each other. In the 
first place let me thank you for your discovery of 
Lichen miniatus, in which you are perfectly right; 
the plant brought last summer by Messrs. Crowe 
and Woodward being no other, notwithstanding 
Mr. Browne is confident that Sir Joseph Banks 
and Dr. Solander named it deustus. Many disco- 
veries have been made in Norfolk indeed, owing to 
Mr. Crowe’s industry, and Mr. Dickson’s having been 
down here for ten days: he left Norwich last Friday 
night. They found little less than thirty new 
species in the Cryptogamia; among which, two very 
pretty Pezizas, a foreign Jungermannia, now named 
hypnoides ; and by Mr. Bryant, a plant figured in 
Dillenius under the name of Spharocephalus ter- 
restris minimus &c. What think you of the finding 
Hydnum inbricatum and Lycoperdon coliforme, or 
Fungus pulverulentus colt instar perforatus cum 
volva stellata, R. Syn. 28. 12? It is twice as large 
as the common sfellatum, and the vesica at least six 
times. It is an elegant Mungus, and much deserves 
a place in the Flora; I counted fifteen rays, and 
about ten perforations about the size of small peas; 
not with their oribus acuminatis, but laceratis, as in 
the Bovista. As I know you are an admirer of Ray, 
I thought this information would give you plea- 
sure, as it is probable the plant may not have been 
found (at least known by botanists) since his time. 
Hydnum imbricatum was scarce less valuable to 
Mr. Dickson; he said the sight of it alone was worth 
