42 NATURAL HISTORY 



LETTER XLI. 



TO THE SAME. 

 DEAR SIR ; SELBORNE, July 3, 1778. 



IN a district so diversified with such a 

 variety of hill and dale, aspects, and soils, 

 it is no wonder that great choice of plants 

 should be found. Chalks, clays, sands, 

 sheep-walks and downs, bogs, heaths, 

 woodlands, and champaign fields, cannot 

 but furnish an ample Flora. The deep 

 rocky lanes abound with jilices, and the 

 pastures and moist woods with fungi. If in 

 any branch of botany we may seem to be 

 wanting, it must be in the large aquatic 

 plants, which are not to be expected on a 

 spot far removed from rivers, and lying 

 up amidst the hill country at the spring 

 heads. To enumerate all the plants that 

 have been discovered within our limits 

 would be a needless work ; but a short list 



