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LETTER XL I. 



To the same. 



SELBORNK, July yd, 1778. 



EAR SIR, 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 -wi\\\ filices, and the pastures and moist woods 

 \\ithfungi. 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 enume- 

 rate all the plants that have been discovered within our limits 

 would be a needless work ; but a short list of the more rare, 



