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five guineas: but the other is in my opinion the 
greater discovery, and Mr. Dickson was not a little 
rich in carrying them home. They were both found 
by Mr. Stone* of Bungay. For my own part, I 
dreamt of Lycoperdon the night I saw it, and 
thought I had found four or five; but, alas! it 
was only adream. Lichen pullus I have not yet seen: 
horizontalis is one of Mr. Crowe’s,—at least so 
marked. Fucus palmatus I have not seen except in 
Gmelin. Lichen parellus grows very common here; 
I did not know the plant ’till lately, but took it for 
pertusus, which I now have. The London botanists 
know very little of Agaricus quercinus and betulinus, 
nor do I believe writers are clear about them. We 
are certain of your guercinus from Batarra’s figure, 
which I’m afraid does not accord with Scheeffer’s : the 
betulinus we are in the dark about. Young Linnzeus 
is at London, and turns out better than they expect- 
ed, showing no want of genius ; but he has put a stop 
to his publication, since Sir Joseph Banks’s disco- 
veries, which Mr. Crowe was told amount with the 
Spe. Pl. to the number of 40,000. I will not say a 
word more upon botany, except that I beg my re- 
spects to Dr. Hope; and whatever is in my power 
to procure for you and your friends you may com- 
mand. And I know you will take pity on a poor 
botanist, who must depend upon his friends for any 
thing he gets new. 
My wife desires her best respects to you. As I have 
* Robert Stone, Esq., late of Bedingham Hall, Norfolk, died 
5th January, 1829. 
