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mosses, though I was never there in waiter, which is theire 

 propper season, and I doubt not but these mountains produce 

 severell unknown grasses which I believe have not been much 

 sought after as yet. I hope you will pardon this long scroule, 

 perhaps naming the known products of this country may be a 

 temptation to you to pay us a visit, and to make strickter 

 inquirys after such discoverys then has hitherto been don, for 

 which I doubt not there is still roome enough left. Vou may 

 perhaps meet with some seeds that are not usual. I have now 

 some good plants raised from seed gathered by you and Dr. 

 Dillinenius {sic), which he sent me not long- agoe.' 



Letter from Dr. Richardson to S. Brewer. 



North Bierley, June 17, 1727. 



[Extract.] — I was last week at Inglebrough in order to 

 bring from thence and in that neighbourhood some plants tor 

 my friends in the south which I had lost out of my garden (viz.), 

 Calceolus flore rotundo \Cypripeditun Calceoliis\ Heleborine 

 folijs praslongis angustis acutis newtoni \Cephalanthera ensi- 

 folia\ in the place where these two grow I met with either a 

 new Rubus alpinus humilis J.B. \Ruhus Saxatitis\ or else a very 

 singulare variety. The leaves are much larger, rounder and 

 smooth, and of a pale green ; whether it differ in flower or 

 fruite from the other I know not. I have brought roots ot it 

 into my garden. At the foot of Gigleswike Scar I met with a 

 Valeriana which seems a stranger to me, it was out of flower, 

 it may perhaps be one of those Gerard says grows about 

 Ingleborough Hill. I brought roots of it with me as also of 

 Chamaemorus Ger. [Rubus Cha?ncE>norus\ and Thlaspi globularia 

 folio J.B. [Thlaspi alpestre var. occitanum\ and Alsine pusilla 

 pulchro flore folio tenuissimo R. Cat. Angl. [Alsine vernti\ ; in 

 a place called Gordill, nigh Malham, I found a Hieracium or 

 two that I had not seen before, alsoe Heleborine atrorubente 

 flore C. B P. [Epipactis ovalis\ Heleborine latifolia montana 

 C B.P. [Epipactis latifolia], and Heleborine palustris nostras 

 Raij [^Epipactis palustris], Herba Paris [Paris quadrifolia], 

 Lilium convallium [Convallaria waftlis], Rubus alpinus humilis 

 J.B. [Rubus saxatilis], Thalictrum minus Ger., and several 

 other unusuall plants, also severall rare orchis's. I have 

 brought some roots of Thalictrum minus [probably Thalictrum 

 alpinum] into my garden, this seems in all its parts much less 

 than the Welsh one which grows plentifully with me.' 



1906 August I. 



