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From the same. 
My dear Sir, Windsor, Feb. 13, 1800. 
You must know that riding the other day through 
water that I had passed a hundred times, all at once 
my horse plunged into a cavity over head and ears. 
I fortunately kept my seat. The water, however, 
at fair standing came over his back. All filled with 
water, by good luck we scrambled out. My ser- 
vant could not help me; it was over his head. I 
then found a little unnoticed bridge had been car- 
ried away by the floods just before. All this hap- 
pened at Old Windsor, in the main road to London. 
Who could have expected such a thing? I had 
three miles to ride home dripping wet and chilly. 
It ended in gout, as I feared. 
You are so deep in willows that I cannot come 
near you. My idea has always been that they 
should be described in two states,—fructification, 
and leaf. They are full as distinct in the one as the 
other. I am glad to agree with you both in amyg- 
dalina and triandra being the same. I have met 
with it at Bath with an almond leaf as like as 
ovum ovo, and in Battersea fields quite otherwise, 
but bearing the sign corticem abjiciens most re- 
markably. The rubra fissa, Hoffman, I found ina 
holt, close (on the north side) to the town of Ely, 
not on Prickwillow Bank, which is six miles from it 
nearly. I longed to add a habitat of what I always 
thought S. arenaria, but I am not sure of your 
plant. The one I mean is that on the sandy downs 
