CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 3 



your friendship and society, so would it still be some 

 comfort to me to know that I retain a place in your 

 thoughts and esteem, though the meanest. I am, &c. 



Coll. Trin., Feb. 25, 1659. 



Mr. RAY to Mr. WILLUGHBY. 



SIR, On Saturday night last, the 7th instant, Mr. 

 Skippon and myself arrived at. Cambridge from a long 

 northern expedition, wherein fop the 'most part 'we fol- 

 lowed your footsteps, proceeding just so far as Sterling 

 and remfning by Glasgow. I gave you in a former letter 

 an account of our design and intention, which whether 

 you received or not I know not. In all this journey I met 

 with but four plants which I had not formerly observed, 

 and in Scotland not one. Those are Pneumonanthe 

 [Gentiana Pneumonanthe, Linn.], which hath a beautiful 

 blue flower, and is perpetual : it grows plentifully in many 

 heathy and moist grounds in Lincolnshire, and the eastern 

 side of Yorkshire, and flowers about the latter end of 

 August. Sedi alpini parva species [S. aizoides, Linn.], 

 which I have not yet searched out : it hath a yellow flower, 

 and flowers about the beginning of August. This I found 

 only in one small spot of ground about Shap in West- 

 morland. Chrysanthemum majus folio valde laciniato, 

 fore croceo, J. B. [Anthemis tinctoria, Linn.], as I judge. 

 This I found in a bank near to the river Tees, in the 

 bishopric of Durham. Lapathum folio acuto fore aureo, 

 C. B. \Eumex maritimus, Linn.], which I had before 

 taken some notice of, when I was less careful and curious 

 in distinguishing of plants. I found likewise, near 

 Huntingdon, a plant which the last year I observed, not 

 far from St. Neots, coming to wait upon you, which 

 puzzles me sore : it is between a Grass and a Caryo- 

 phyllus, I know not what to call it unless it be Poly- 

 gono angustissimo folio affinis, C. B., but I cannot find 

 that described anywhere. I have sent you a little branch 



