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what else I have made, or shall further make, I will send 

 you as I did the former upon the fishes, when I remit the 

 papers, which I shall despatch so soon as conven [iently] 



ice, and I am, 



Sir, 



much yours in both capacities, 



friend and servant, 



JOHN RAY. 



Mr. RAY to Dr. HAUS SLOANE. 



SIR, I received your letter, with the specimen in- 

 closed, which seems to me to be the Sesamoides Sala- 

 manticum magnum of Clusius, or Lychnis viscosa flore 

 muscoso of C. D. [Silene Otites, Sm.], which I have 

 observed togrowplentifully upon Newmarket Heath, that 

 part I mean that is in Suffolk, for on Cambridgeshire side 

 I have not found it. I can but wonder it should have 

 such a virtue as you mention, but it seems it is well 

 attested. Dr. Hulse writes me he finds it in Grayes 

 Farrier. 



If you go to Jamaica, I pray you a safe and prosperous 

 voyage. We expect great things from you, no less than 

 the resolving all our doubts about the names we meet with 

 of plants in that part of America, as the Dildoe, Mammae, 

 Mangrove, Manchinello, Avcllance purpatrices, the Sower- 

 sop, and Custard-apple, of most of which though I am 

 pretty well informed, and satisfied by Dr. Robinson, yet 

 I shall be glad to be either confirmed, or better informed 

 by so knowing and curious an observer as yourself. I 

 should be glad to know what manner of fruit the Mandioca 

 bears, for (whatever some have written) that it is not 

 without, I am confident. You may also please to observe 

 whether there be any species of plants common to America 

 and Europe, and whether Ambergrise be the juice of any 



