CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 99 



Mr. JOHNSON to Mr. RAY. 



HONOURED SIR, I saw near Kendal, to my great 

 wonder, a Broom-tree (if I may so say) four or five yards 

 high, much thicker than my leg, spreading large branches 

 every way, adorned with large fair flowers, a very fair 

 spectacle. I found at Haughter, in the Bishopric, your 

 Varietas altera Jacea nigrce, with the flower all white, a 

 very pretty plant, worthy a garden. 



Brignall, August 5, 72. 



Dr. LISTER to Mr. RAY. 



SIR, August 18 1 passed through Marton Woods, 

 under Pimco Moor, in Craven. In these woods I then 

 found very great plenty of mushrooms, and many of them 

 then withered, and coal-black, but others new sprung 

 and flourishing. They are some of them of a large size, 

 and yet few much bigger than the champignon, or 

 ordinary red-gilled eatable mushroom, and very much of 

 the shape of that that is, an exactly round cap, or crown, 

 which is thick in flesh, and open, deep gills underneath ; 

 a fleshy, and not hollow, round foot-stalk, of about six 

 fingers' breadth above ground, and ordinarily as thick as 

 my thumb ; the foot-stalk, gills, and cap, all of a milk- 

 white colour. If you cut' any part of this mushroom, it 

 will bleed exceeding freely and plentifully a pure white 

 juice. Concerning which, note 



1 . That the youngest did drop much more plentifully 

 and freely than those that were at their full growth and 

 expansion. That the dried and withered ones had no 

 signs of milk in them that I then discerned. 



2. That this milk tastes and smells like pepper, and is 

 much hotter upon the tongue. 



