grazier seems to distinguish the annual from the 

 perennial, the hardy from the tender, nor the suc- 

 culent and nutritive from the dry and juiceless. 



The study of grasses would be of great conse- 

 quence to a northerly and grazing kingdom. The 

 botanist that could improve the sward of the district 

 where he lived would be a useful member of society: 

 to raise a thick turf on a naked soil would be worth 

 volumes of systematic knowledge ; and he would be 

 the best commonwealth's man that could occasion 

 the growth of ** two blades of grass where only one 

 was seen before." 



Selborne, June 2, 1778. 



LETTER LXXXIII. 

 To THE Honourable Daines Barrington. 



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 

 filices, and the pastures and moist woods with fungi. 

 If in any branch of botany we may seem to be want- 

 ing, it must be in the large aquatic plants, which are 

 not to be expected on a spot far removed from 



