LETTER XXXIII. 
JULY; 
I PROMISED you, m a former letter, 
an excurfion to the celebrated Chalk-pit 
Clofe at Cherry Hinton: celebrated, becaufe 
it contains a great variety of plants - y becaufe 
it was frequently vifited by Ray, the father 
of Englifh Botanifts ; and becaufe my wor- 
thy friend Relhan, on this fpot, recovered 
the long loft At ham ant a libanotis: I fay reco- 
vered, becaufe Dr. Withering in the firft 
volume of his Botanical Arrangement mif- 
takes the fact, in faying that Mr. Relhan 
firft difcovered this plant in Britain. Mr. 
Relhan never pretended to any fuch origi- 
nal difcovery, well knowing that Ray had 
found it on Gog-magog hills 5 but, no Bo- 
tanift, fince Ray's time, before Mr. Relhan, 
had been able to find it. He claims only 
the merit of difcovering a plant, which, for 
many years, had been totally loft. This 
explanation is the more neceflary, becaufe 
Dr. Withering, in the firft part of his third 
volume, lately publifhed, deviates ftill far- 
ther from the truth, in quoting the autho- 
rity 
