186 CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 



Succisa angustifolia alpina. Toumefort. 

 Stachys pyrenaica. D. Fagon. 

 Stachys Cretica major. Toumefort. 

 Tithymalm ranunculi radice. D. Fagon. 



In our simpling joui'ney to Sheppey we found a peren- 

 nial ~K.a\i[8alicornia fruticosa, Sm.*], differing something 

 from that on the Mediterranean shore, in that it creeps, 

 whereas the other is erect. Then the green tops are 

 thicker than that on the Mediterranean shores ; and Mr. 

 Watts assures me it is a perennial. It grows near King's 

 Ferry, in Sheppey, where also is cast upon the shore the 

 Fucus spongiosus nodosus Ger. emac. In the same place, 

 in the ditch, grows plentifully an Atripleoc maritima folio 

 sinuato candicante angusto. It seems to differ from the 

 common Sinuato candicante pin. as the common Maritima 

 from the Sylvestris altera. I send you down specimens 

 of them, and Axtius de pice conficiendd, and Arboribus 

 coniferis, by the first carrier ; as also that Fucus I for- 

 merly told you of, to look like a honeycomb, which I 

 found cast upon the shore on Sheppey, as well as at 

 Nesson. There is in town a bark come from Virginia, 

 which has prickles, the bases of which resemble petrified 

 Malta teeth. It stings the tongue in a very extraordinary 

 manner; and he that brought it says it grows plentifully 

 on the shore there. On Sheppey, searching for the cop- 

 peras-stones, or Pyrites, I found that the most part of 

 those taken up in that island are after north-easterly 

 storms, that they are beat up by the waves, and taken 

 up at low water. Among others I found one something 

 extraordinary. It had been a Buccinum petrified, and 

 after that turned into a Pyrites ; so that you might see 

 everything in it as in a Pyrites, viz. weight, colour, &c. 

 I leave you to judge whether or no the difference between 

 the Atriplexes maritime and sylvestres may not be 

 occasioned by the differing soil; for, considering that both 

 the maritime are less in their leaves than the sylvestres, 



* Not of Liun. It is a form of the S. radiants, Sm. 



