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But this horrid war turns all men’s minds to drums, 
trumpets, and arms. 
You may depend upon my noting down any er- 
rors which I may perceive ; but from what I have 
read, I should think there are none, for all seems 
quite correct. 
How admirably well you support English Bo- 
tany. The numbers improve as they go, I think. 
I wish to recommend the variety 6 of Hedypnovs 
autumnale to your notice, as I have found it seve- 
ral times just as Petiver’s figure represents it. I 
cannot but think it a distinct species: the outer- 
most lobe of the lower leaves always large. 
There is a plant of which I have not a correct 
notion; viz. the Prcris heracioides. LT always took 
a dwarfish plant, about one foot high, of a hard 
roughish tendency, to be that; but the Eton bota- 
nists assured me, that a smooth plant which grew 
just over the ferry lane at Datchet, about three feet 
high, was P. hieraciordes. I do not find my dwarf 
plant in English Botany. How will you contrive 
about the Fungi ? 
An acquaintance of mine, whom you formerly 
saw at my house, a good entomologist, and a friend 
of Dr. Sibthorp’s, Miss Hill, has lately turned 
her very acute mind to the study of marine plants. 
I have encouraged her to proceed, and I think she 
will produce some valuable observations. Time 
will show. An old friend of yours at Leyden and 
Edinburgh, Dr. Vaughan, is stationed as a physician, 
and he has good practice, at Rochester. He threat- 
ens that he will take to botany this summer. I 
