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NATURAL HISTORY 
LETTER XLL 
TO THE SAME. 
DEAR SIR, Selborne, July 3, 1778. 
In a diftrift fo divcrfified with fuch a variety of hill and dale, 
afpedls, and foils, it is no wonder that great choice of plants 
ihould be found. Chalks, clzys, fands, fheep-walks and downs, 
bogs, heaths, woodlands, and champaign fields, cannot but furnifli 
an ample Flora. The deep rocky lanes abound with flices, and 
the paftures and moift woods with fio^gi. If in any branch of 
botany we may feem to be wanting, it muft be in the large aquatic 
plants, which are not to be expedted on a fpot far removed from 
rivers, and lying up amid ft the hill country at the fpring heads. 
To enumerate all the plants that have been difcovered within our 
limits would be a needlefs work ; but a fhort lift of the more rare, 
and the fpots where they are to be found, may be neither unac- 
ceptable nor unentertaining : — ■ 
Hellehori'.s fceiidus, ftinking hellebore, bear's foot, or fetterworth, 
all over the Hlgh-7vood and Coney-croft-hanger : this continues a great 
branching plant the winter through, bloffoming about January, and 
is very ornamental in fhady walks and Ihrubberies. The good 
women give the leaves powdered to children troubled with worms; 
but it is a violent remedy, and ought to be adminiftered with 
caution. 
Helkboms 
