CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 47 



Mr. WRAY to Mr. LISTER. 



SIR, I have perused the dried plants you sent me, 

 and, according to niy best judgment, added names to 

 such as wanted, and do now with thanks return you them 

 back again. The plant you judged to be a Thlaspi, is 

 nothing else but Glastum [Isatis tinctoria, Linn.] ; and 

 that which you titled Lotus, is Fumaria alba claviculata 

 [F. claviculata, Linn.] Your Hesperis is to me alto- 

 gether new, never before seen in England or elsewhere : 

 whether it be by me rightly referred, you are better able 

 to judge who have seen the plant growing, and its flower 

 in perfection. The Mentastrum 1 have found growing 

 wild plentifully about Florence, but never in England. 

 That which you style Capillo veneris vero similis, I make 

 to be a sort of Adiantlmm aureum. I have often in moist 

 places found straggling branches of such leaves at the 

 roots of Adianthum aureum minus, but never growing 

 so many and thick together from the same root, all of the 

 same kind, but once, and in such a place as yours was 

 now found. That you may be convinced that the Muscus 

 you styled denticulatus major, is not that so named by 

 herbarists, I have, out of Mr. Willughby's store, sent you 

 two branches of the Muscus denticulatus major, which I 

 must entreat you to return again, at least one of them. 

 We have made bold to take part of such of your plants 

 as we wanted, where you might well spare it. If you 

 have any sorts of Mushrooms specifically distinct from 

 those I have inserted, and of whose names you are sure, 

 I should be glad of them, and willingly afford them room. 

 Such of your grasses as I have not put names to I am as 

 yet doubtful of. The Roses you mention I am well 

 acquainted with ; the lesser being the Pimpernel rose of 

 Gerard [Rosa spinosissima, Linn.], you will find some- 

 thing of in my Catalogue, which I herewithal send you, 

 entreating you to read it over so soon as your leisure will 

 permit, to correct, as you shall see cause, and to send me 

 your animadversions and remarks upon it, and such 



