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Page 25. Line 5.
"Plucks the wood sorrel—"
Oxalis acetosella.
Line 8.
"Gathers, the copse's pride, anémones."
Anemóne nemorosa.—It appears to be settled on late and excellent authorities, that this word should not be accented on the second syllable, but on the penultima. I have however ventured the more known accentuation, as more generally used, and suiting better the nature of my verse.
"Of sea-shells; with the pale calcareous soil
Mingled, and seeming of resembling substance."
Among the crumbling chalk I have often found shells, some quite in a fossil state and hardly dis-
