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about Walmer Castle and Deal, where, when the 
wind blows fresh, the under side of the leaves turn- 
ing up gives the whole a silvery appearance. Iam 
glad you throw out hermaphroditica. 
Again in Polypodiums 1 cannot follow you. I 
always thought we found P. Thelypteris near Bury ; 
but by your list that is Oreopteris: it grew only 
in one marshy place, about six or seven miles from 
the town. Have you sufficiently attended to acu- 
leatum and lobatum? As they grew in Sole’s gar- 
den together, they seemed very different ; lobatum 
as smooth again as aculeatum: then its pinne were 
adscendent, &c., &c. 
I am heartily glad at seeing that so much pro- 
gress is made. I am getting better every day; so 
send when you please. 
S. G. 
From the same. 
My dear Sir, Windsor, Oct. 17, 1801. 
I wish to say that I am alive, and am disappointed 
at not hearing from you: I always look up to you 
for consolations in natural history,—a bit of some- 
thing new: then especially those new Carzces which 
have been discovered since I wrote. Any thing 
to a poor wretch who has no field for exploration, 
no companion, but still knows the value and the 
comforts of the charming science, would be accept- 
able. 
You all seem to be mistaken, I fear, about my 
