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when discovered proving to be things of no great value. 

 If it please God I get well, I intend this week a journey 

 into Essex. Your experiments made upon trees brought 

 to the fire, I have as yet heard nothing of from Mr. Olden- 

 burgh. ***** 



Middleton, April 13, 1671 . 



Sir PHILIP SKIPPON to Mr. RAY. 



SIR, I should have sent you the last week the inclosed 

 particulars which Willisell desires you to take notice of. 

 The one is, as he says, a Salix n. d. that casts its outward 

 bark and stands naked : it hath a remarkable lulus. It 

 grows near the small brook that runs into that river nigh 

 Darking in Surrey. The other is, as he would have it 

 called, Veronica spec. Paroni/cJtice fol. Rut. facie \Vero- 

 nicte trijjhyllos, Linn.] It grows at Rowtam, in Norfolk, 

 betwixt the town and the highway, twelve miles before 

 you come to Norwich ; and at Mewell, in Suffolk, betwixt 

 the two windmills and the warren-lodge in a wheat- 

 ground, on the right hand of Lynn road ; and in gravel- 

 pits, two miles beyond Barton Mills, on the ridge of the 

 hill, where a small cart way crosseth the road to Lynn. 

 It grows also in the grass thereabout very plentifully 

 nigh the latter end of April. Of these two I have sent 

 samples. 



He hath discovered Hetteborine flo. albo \CepJialan- 

 tkera grandiflord\ to grow a mile on this side Greenhithe, 

 in a valley near a church, and in the beech wood nigh 

 Darking. He hath also found Absinth, inod. [Artemisia 

 campestris, Linn.] a mile from Barton Mills, where a 

 small stone standeth in the road to Lynn for to guide 

 passengers; and in the furze bushes under the hill 

 plentifully; and on the road to Norwich, before you 

 come to a town called Elden, where a great road from 



