94 TRAVELS THROUGH 



I have hitherto entertained you with the collet 

 tions of Mr. Giov. Targioni Tozzetti. But there 

 is at Florence another able phyfician a called Michel 

 Angela Targiont, living alia piazza di S. Maria no- 

 vella, which is not at all related to the former. I 

 faw in his houfe an excellent collection of mells^ 

 belonging to his fon Dr. Giov. Luigi Targioni. He 

 poflefies befides this fome minerals, petrifactions, 

 and fluffed birds. He has fome exotic and rather 

 unknown drugs. This gives me an opportunity 

 to tell you, that the Fungus Melitenjis or Sangui- 

 mria, which is defcribed in Linneus's Amanit. acade- 

 micisy is to be had in the Florentine apothecaries. 

 I had been told that it grows near Leghorn ;' but 

 that happened only once by accident, in a place 

 where fome earth and feeds from Maltha had been 

 accidentally thrown. Mr. Giov. Luigi Targioni has 

 publifhed a treatife de aitraftione & gravitate. 



Dr. Saverio Ferdinando. Moretti is profeflbr 

 of botany in the botanic garden, and fecretary to 

 the fociety of hufbandry; and Dr Antonio Du- 

 razzini.is fecretary to the Academia botanic a \ which 

 focieties each feparately afTemble in the above-men- 

 tioned garden in a fmall room, wherein is kept a 

 collection of feeds. The garden is large and well 

 fituated,. planted and claffified according to the 

 two chief fyftems, that of Tournefort, adopted 

 by Mr. Manetti, and that of Linneus j but there 



