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floris pultem ingenit, inque stylum terminatur pollicem 

 et dimidium longum et inferius prope extremum intortum. 

 Fructus isthic cum maturescit et grandescit formam cordis 

 assumit, et granula triangularia continet et neque fruc- 

 tuui nee semina perfecta vidi color floris e rubro violaceus 

 est, ut et suminitatum calicis. Caules et floram pediculi 

 albi sunt, carnosi teneri et fragiles, unusquisque caulis 

 18 circiter florum fasciculum sustinet. 



P. Sherard ob convenientiam notarum plantam hanc 

 eandem cum clandestina Tournefortii flore subcoeruleo 

 ' Institut. Rei Herb./ p. 652, sibi persuadet cujus opinio 

 et nobis verisimilis videtur. Descriptio autem D. Tourne- 

 fort ~sie se habet clandestina est plantse genus flore 

 monopetalo personate, inferne tubulate, superne in duo 

 labia diviso quorum superius fornicatum inferius vero 

 tripartitum. Ex calice autem tabulate pariter crenatoque 

 sergit pistillum quod infima floris partem perfodit, 

 abitque deinde in fructum oblongum .... salarem 

 in duas partes dehiscentem vi elactica semina subrotunda 

 propellantes. Clandestine speciem unicam novi cujus 

 varietates sunt. 



Mr. HAY to Mr. JAMES PETIVER. 



B.N., April 15, 1701. 



SIR, It is not long since I wrote to you at large, in 

 answer to yours of April 1, since which time Dr. Robinson 

 tells rne that you had an opportunity of sending to 

 Leyden, and would do me the kindness to convey the 

 manuscript of my ' Methodus Flantarum Emendata ' to 

 Dr. Hotton, in order to the printing of it there ; where- 

 upon I have sent up the copy to you, entreating you to 

 take the care of it, and to transmit it to him when occa- 



