4S JSTATqi^At His TORY 



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 campaign fields, cannot 

 but furnish an ample Flora, The deep 

 rocky lanes abound with Jilices, and the 

 pastures and moist woods y^iih 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 



