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In the heart of .the forest is a spot of cleared 
ground, which constitutes a small farm: a cottage 
is erected on it. About a quarter of a mile (two 
fields breadth) distant from it I met with the plant, 
growing by the side of a running ditch, and cover- 
ing several square yards of ground. The spot did 
not lie below the cottage ; nor could I find an ap- 
pearance of any habitation having ever existed near 
the course of the little stream. I traced it to its 
source in the bogs of the adjoining forest, and 
downwards to its union with Dowles’ Brook, but. 
could find no more specimens of the plant. Ifyou 
agree with me in believing it really wild, it will be 
easy for me to send you fresh plants next summer, 
though I cannot discover that they differ from the 
garden ones. If ever you have leisure in any fu- 
ture visit to Oxford, I much wish you would visit 
Elsfield Wood, and ascertain what probabilities 
there are for considering Lonicera Caprifolium as 
wild there: I think they rest on as firm founda- 
tion as any other plant with a single Aabetat. Dr. 
Randolf, the present Bishop of Oxford, showed 
_ great botanical ignorance, in affirming that it was 
only a variety of the common Honeysuckle, since 
no two plants have their distinct characters more 
strongly marked. 
Iwill, as usual, subjoin a list of what rarer 
plants I have found this year. Osmunda lunaria, on 
a hill above Cheadle, Staffordshire. Vaceinium Vitis 
Idea, very abundant in Cotten Woods, near Chea- 
dle. A very small specimen of a fern, in the ca- 
vity of a rock below Renard’s Cave in Dovedale, 
