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invade, and call them rebels? Are they not true to 
their country? Never was there in the history of 
man a more barefaced invasion of natural right and 
justice. 
I shall be glad to hear from you, if it be but the 
chit-chat of a moment. In what state of forward- 
ness is the fourth volume of Flora Britannica? How 
I long for it! 
S. CaRLIsLe. 
From the same. 
My dear Sir, Rose Castle, Nov. 12, 1808. 
Natural History totters as it were under its own 
weight ; every one publishing, quite to the nausea 
of purchasers, the commonest things. When Shaw 
published the Cock Sparrow and the Common Snail, 
I thought it high time to discontinue the Natura- 
list’s Miscellany. I thought Don’s discoveries very 
valuable; the Hypericum and Lquisetum were quite 
new to me. How is it that such large plants have 
lain hid from ages? I fear much that roguish tricks 
have been played by more persons than your hum- 
ble servant, who often attempted to naturalize fo- 
reigners. Witness the Stsymbrium polyceratium in 
the streets of Bury, which poor Laurents and I 
sowed there. I cannot help thinking his Lamium 
to bea distinct species. If the leaves are constantly 
petiolated, surely it ought to be so named. The 
corolla appears also to me to be different from 
amplexicaule. 
Hugh Davies sent me, while at ‘oRotioese his 
