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of it, and synonyme of C. Bauh., which seems by him 

 particularly adapted from the parvity of its flowers and 

 heads, must be quite another thing. But what this is I 

 cannot determine, as never having seen the plant, and 

 therefore do submit it to your most excellent and 

 discretive judgment. 



The Polygala repens nivea, C. B. P., repens nuperor, 

 Lob., I do readily grant is a Polygonum, but extremely 

 differing from the Polyg. Serpylli folio verticiltat. Cat. 

 Angl., parvum fl. albo verticillat., J. B. \Corrigiola litto- 

 ralis, Linn.], which comes under a much nearer resem- 

 blance to the Polyg. muscosum, P. Bocc., though it be 

 very^4Uferent from this too, as by collating the plants 

 themselves, I having them by me, you will easily 

 perceive. 



That pretty Polygonum \Glaux maritima, Linn.] Mr. 

 Newton found in Cornwall, myself upon the Severn shore, 



cannot be the Pusillo vermiculato Serpylli folio, 



J. B., Serpylli folio, Lob., Park. \Frankcnia laevis, Linn.], 

 if at least the figure of it among authors does any way 

 agree with the thing, since the leaves of this are round 

 and shining, but nothing of a Stonecrop shape ; and, 

 therefore, as you have given it the honour of a place in 

 the Appendix of your learned Synopsis, you may find I 

 have given it a different name, viz. Polygonum maritimum 

 longius radicatum nostras Serpylli folio circinato crasso- 

 nitente ; and perhaps it is the same with the Polygon, 

 minus lentifolium, C. B. \Herniaria lenticulata, Linn.*], 

 as 1 have there set down my suspicion. 



The Gnaphalium maritimum [Diotis maritima, Cass.] 

 you have ranged, without any remark, among the pap- 

 pescentf of that kind, when Breynius, in Prodr. 2, assures 

 it hath solid seed. 



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* To which Linnaeus has also erroneously referred this plant of Plukcnctt, 

 in the Sp. PI. ed. n. C. C. B. 

 f It lias no puppus. C. C. B. 



