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20. I must confess it was not without some surprise 

 upon me that you should condemn the collocation of my 

 Brassica spuria caule magis folio so with the Pilosella 

 siliquafa Thalii, in that the stalk of mine is foliose, when 

 the very Pilosella siliquafa itself is not altogether desti- 

 tute of leaves upon its stalk and branches, as the thing 

 itself assures, and is so represented in the figure annexed 

 to the Harcynia by the learned Camerarius. But were 

 its stalks really viduate of leaves, and naked, I do not 

 see Avhy mine, arrayed with this ornament of leaves, 

 should be shut out from a society with the other upon 

 that account, any more than the Bursa pastoris Alpina 

 minor hirsuta loculo ohlongo, C. B. P., with its leafy stalk 

 from the Bursa pastoria minima verna loculis oblongis 

 J. B. Chabr., or the Paronychia vulgaris, Dod., both 

 whereof (poor scabs) are Nudicaides ; and yet I lielieve it 

 were a hard matter to obtain your consent for a bill to 

 divorce them upon the account of these inotfensive nu- 

 dities. 



July 17, —92. 



Mr. J. Aubrey to Mr. Ray. 



Honoured Sir, — As to lime trees, I must advertise 

 you that in Bedfordshire there are woods where are 

 thousands of them, e. g. at Chicksands (Sir Osburn's), 

 and in other woods thereabouts ; also at Mr. Wyld's 

 estate at Totham in Essex, and this I do assure you from 

 my worthy friend Edm. Wyld, Esq., Mr. Bullock's 

 kinsman. They also grow wild, but not so common in 

 the Eorest of Dean. In Cranborne Chace (Dorset) are 

 very few, and they know not their name. As to Shave- 

 weed used by artists (which they have from Holland), 

 we have of the same sort, and as good, in a hill by B — 

 Abbey, in Wilts. I do think there is a greater variety 

 of Withys than you mention ; a bencher of the Middle 



