LETTER XXXIV. 
AUGUST. 
THIS morning we fhall pay a fecond 
vifit to the Chalk-pit Clofe, for the 
particular purpofe of (hewing you the Atha- 
manta libanotis. When' I firft beheld this 
rare plant in company with my friend Rel- 
han, he infifted on my taking off my hat; 
a ceremony, which, he told me, the cele- 
brated author of the Flora Anglica> had moft 
reverendly obferved. You will be furprifed 
to find, that there is nothing extraordinary 
in its appearance: its fole merit lies in its 
fcarcity. Here it is. You have feen many 
common umbelliferous plants, of much the 
fame appearance. Like the reft, it is of the 
Clafs and Order, Pentandria Digynia. 
The generic character of the plant 
is Fruttw cvato-oblongus, Jlriatw. ma " ta ' 
Petalainflexa>emarginata; and thefpe- 
cific character foliis bipinnatis pla- 
nis> umbella hemifpherica y jeminibus hir- 
Jutis: fo that both the generic and 
fpecific characters depend upon the 
feed. 
