cannot recollect : but it is easy to distinguish them 

 at this season ; for soon after they are out of bloom 

 they throw-out radical leaves, which abide all the 

 winter. The plant is rare ; but happens to abound 

 in the Long Lithe, and will be enumerated in the list 

 of more rare plants about Selborne. I wish we could 

 say we had y« Parnasia : I have sowed seeds in our 

 bogs several times, but to no purpose. Please to let 

 me know how many inches of rain fell in the late wet 

 fit, which lasted about 5 weeks. The springs from 

 being very low mounted-up to a vast rate ; and our 

 lavants at Faringdon began to appear last week. My 

 Bar'' is this evening at 30- 3 - 1O34, the air thick, and 

 warm, and still. Hepaticas and winter-aconites blos- 

 som ; and Helleborus foetidus in the High-wood, another 

 rare plant. The clouds are all gone ; and we may 

 expect frost. 



We have here this winter a weekly concert con- 

 sisting of a first and second fiddle, two repianos, a 

 bassoon, an haut-boy, a violincello, and a German- 

 flute ; to the great annoyance of the neighbouring 

 pigs, which complain that their slumbers are inter- 

 rupted, and their teeth set on edge. 



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