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specimen out of Mr. Charlton's collection, with the title 

 affixed by Dr. Magnol, and which answers well enough 

 to Thalius's name, it being very twiggy in its branches 

 towards the top ; but whether trailing on the ground or 

 not I cannot determine, as never having seen it grow ; 

 perhaps mine may be only a single twig atop. 



14. That the two Astragaluses, the Stella leguminosa, 

 mdmjFiwaSeaamaceaJjwIaFab.jColuiwi., are extremely 

 differing by their collation, nothing can be more apparent ; 

 nor can your argument from Dr. Magnol make anything 

 against it, since his, and our commonly received Vicia 

 Sesamac. Apula, is no other than the Secnridaca siliquis 

 foliacei$,j)i Monsieur Boccone, which has a variety with 

 those affections you speak of, viz. the pods with foot- 

 stalks almost an inch long. We may perceive Dr. Mo- 

 rison himself labouring under the same mistake, when in 

 his ' History of Oxford' he proposes in Icon his Astra- 

 galus annuus rectm Jlore ochroleuco, which is no other 

 than Boccon's Securidaca ; for the Vicia Apula, Column., 

 and that which is truly so (as everybody must own, both 

 from the figure and description of Columna, in his 

 ' Ecphras.' pp. 1, 301, 303), he sets down under the title 

 of Astragal, annuus siliq. et fol. hirsntis, tab. 9, sect, ii, 

 and makes it the same with Fcenugrceco sylvestri Tragi 

 in quibusdam accedens, J. B., as may be seen in his 

 History, p. 109. And if ever my catalogue see light, 

 these things will be better explained. 



15. I thank you for your kind information about the 

 Cambrian ferns ; yet methinks I cannot but be steady to 

 the title of Filix pumila Myrrhidis facie, it being a name 

 that in few words so graphically denotes the thing itself. 



16. The shrub that grew in Mr. Wilkinson's garden 

 coming in some disguise, and in a different face from 

 what I had from Carolina, had like indeed to have put 

 upon me; but after it was graved I acquainted Dr. 

 Robinson with my suspicions about it, and if you please 

 to remind, you will find a note upon it amidst its 

 synonyma; which, though it be put there only as a 



