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strange plants, the like whereto I never saw before. If 

 you remember the Adiantum nigrum speciosum canarien&i, 

 I pray consider whether it may not be the same with 

 Filicula lusitanica Polypodii radice, described and 

 figured in ' Hort. Reg. Monspel.' 



I wish you happy success in your studies and endeavours 

 in promoting natural knowledge, and illustrating the 

 power and wisdom of the Divine Creator of all, to whose 

 holy protection and blessing I humbly recommend you, 

 and rest, Sir, 



Yours to serve you, 



JOHN RAY. 



Blacklfetley, May 3, 1701. 



Mr. RAY to Mr. JAMES PETIVEK. 



Black Notley, May 20, 1701. 



SIR, I wrote to you not long since to give you advice 

 of the receipt of your dried plants, and your annotations 

 upon, and additions to, my first four tribes of Fuci, Fungi, 

 Musci, and Capillares, in which, by adding names to the 

 several species, you have eased me of a great deal of pains 

 and trouble, and enabled me to perform better than, 

 without such your assistance, I could have done by my 

 utmost diligence and industry, so that I must acknowledge 

 myself to be highly obliged by you. But this hath been 

 the subject of my former letter, and therefore I shall add 

 no more. 



My business now is to entreat your care in dispatching 

 the inclosed by the first opportunity to Father Camelli. 

 It is to desire that he would speed the sending of his 

 figures and descriptions of the scandent plants and trees, 

 which he promised in his letter to me (which is now in 

 Dr. Sherard's hand), that if possible they may come 

 timely enough to be inserted in the appendix to this 

 Supplement. 



