LETTER XLI. 



To the same. 



SELBORNE, July yd, 1778. 



k.R 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 with Alices, 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 



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