308 CORRESPONDENCE OJt 1 RAY. 



will serve to enrich my ' Supplement. Hist.' You write 

 like an ingenuous person and a lover of truth. Give me 

 leave to acquaint you, that I think you are mistaken in 

 making the Milium indicum arundinaceo caule granis 

 jlavescentibus, Herman. Cat.,* to be the same with 

 Sorgum, which he makes a different plant ; and the same 

 with Frumentum indicum quod Milium indicum vacant, 

 C. B. Theat. Bot. 488. Looking over your Catalogue, I 

 find you refer to Urtica several plants, which have little 

 agreement one with another, except in the figure of the 

 leaf, and having a stamineous flower, and therefore I pray 

 tell me what you make to be the characteristic note or 

 notes of an Urtica; for neither Folia adversa, spinula 

 urentes, fructus racemosi, nor s.emina solitaria, are com- 

 mon to them all. 



I hope, ere now, my bookseller hath sent you my paper 

 concerning respiration, of which I desire you would freely 

 give me your opinion, and also communicate it to Dr. 

 Connor, to whom I wrote, but doubt, for want of a suffi- 

 cient direction, whether my letter came to his hands. My 

 wife gives you her very humble, and I am, 



Sir, 

 Your very affectionate and much obliged 



friend and servant, 



JOHN RAY. 



For Dr. Hans Sloane, at his house 

 at the corner of Southampton street, 

 towards Bloomsbury square, London. 



Dr. CONNOR to Mr. BAY. 



London, Bow street, Nov. 9, 96. 



SIR, Dr. Sloane has been pleased to give me your 

 ingenious and learned 'Dissertation about Respiration,' 

 to peruse it, which I have done with a great deal of satis- 



* This plant and the Frumentum indicum, &c. C. B., are referred to Holcus 

 saccharatus by Linnaeus ; but Sloane's Milium indicum, &c, is named H. bicolor 

 by him. 



