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parallel of latitude, there is nothing extraordinary 
if the same plant proves indigenous in both coun- 
tries. 
My Lord Valentia desires me to present his best 
compliments. He hopes soon to meet you in 
London. 
Believe me, my dear Sir, 
Most sincerely yours, 
Tuomas Burr. 
Rev. Thomas Butt to J. E. Smith. 
My dear Sir, Upper Areley, Dec. 17, 1799. 
I feel myself highly honoured by the mention 
made of me in a late number of English Botany, 
and am particularly pleased that my name should 
appear in a work, which, without any pretensions to 
inspiration, I may venture to predict will always 
retain its present celebrity. I am not, however, 
without some uneasiness, unsupported as I am by 
any botanist of established fame, lest I should erro- 
neously have judged Anchusa officinalis indigenous. 
‘With the same diffidence I shall now accurately 
describe to you the situation of another plant, 
which I met with this summer in my wanderings 
through Wyre Forest. I have little doubt of its 
being Gnaphalium margaritaceum*, of which Wi- 
thering gives no hadetat since the time of Ray. 
* This conjecture on the part of Mr. Butt proved quite cor- 
rect; and the plant was figured in English Botany ten years after, 
from specimens sent from the spot here described. 
