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variety, the hint may be sufficiently understood, as indeed 

 I would have it; and it is the only double oversight 

 (I think) committed in the whole work. 



17. As for your suspicion of my misapplying synonyma 

 to the Altli. profunde serrato 8. dentato folio, J. B., it 

 will be soon taken off, when I shall tell you that my 

 opinion is, the Thuringiaca Camerario ejusd., J. B., is 

 the selfsame thing, though he seems to make them two, 

 but with a great deal of vacillation and wavering. And 

 now you will find Gasp. Bauh. synonyma here used recon- 

 cilable enough to what it was intended, and Clusius's 

 names will fall in pat, as you would have them. 



18. If your Ledum Alpinum hirsut. min. Cat. Exteror. 

 be my Cistus Chamarhododendros, fyc., it is very different 

 from the Cistus pumilis montis Baldi, fyc., J. B., though 

 this be a Chamarhododendros too, as being a monopeta- 

 loid, having but one leaf, with some top division in the 

 flower. 



19. My Polygonum minus procumbens niveum Glaucis 

 exiguce fol. is undoubtedly the Polygala repens, nuperor, 

 Lob., and I believe the Polygonum minus candicans 

 supinum of Dr. Magnol, though he upon mistake applies 

 it to the Paronycliia kispanica, Clus., which is a more 

 surrect plant. And that the Polygonum verticillatum, 

 J. B., is very diverse from this Polygala of Lobel, may 

 be observed from the particular of its leaves towards the 

 tops of the branches ; for arriving within an inch and a 

 half thereof, they leave the stalk well nigh naked for 

 some space, and then, as it were to recover that loss, 

 they grow to the very lip in a most close and imbricated 

 order, which is never to be found in the Polygonum 

 verticillatum kind. Something of this peculiar may be 

 observed in Lobel's figure of it, though the interstice be 

 not expressed. The Polygon, minimum montanum ni- 

 veum et sericeum, Aldr., is no other than the Paronych. 

 Hisp., Clus., a false synonyme, and ill applied by Dr. 

 Magnol to his supine sort, which I believe to be the 

 same with mine. 



