jzj.1 The Natural Hi/lory 



the Pietradi figure de bofchiof Ferrantelmperato*, yet fit me well 

 enough with a tranfition to the Chapter of Vegetables, which im- 

 mediatly follows. 



182. Only Imuftbeg leave firft to advcrtife the Reader, that 

 what I have afcribed to Dr. Merret concerning the Toad- ftone, 

 fecl.1^6. 1 have found fince the Printing of that fheet, feeming- 

 ly alfo given to the Learned Sir George Ent, by the no lefs Learn- 

 ed Sir Thomas Brown, in the laft Edition of his Pfeudodoxia Epi- 

 demica V to whether more rightly, let them contend. And that 

 fince the Printing the beginning of this Chapter, I received from 

 the Right worfhipful Sir Philip Ear court of Stanton Harcourt, two 

 kinds of Selenites, though of the fame texture, yet much diffe- 

 rently formed from any there mention'd ; both of them being 

 Vodeca'edrums, but the Hedr<e too as much different from one an- 

 other, as from any of the former: The firft fort of them being 

 made up of two Rhomboideal hdesfom oblong,2nd as many (hort- 

 er pentagons ; and two fmall Trapeziums, one half whereof are 

 reprefented Tab. 8. Fig. 13. And the fecond, of two oblong 

 Hexagons, four oblong Trapeziums , four oblong parallelograms, 

 and two large pentagons, one half whereof are alfo reprefent- 

 ed Fig. 14. In both which it is to be underftood, that the Hedrdt. 

 at the ends of each ftone, are oppofed by two others like them, 

 not according to the breadth, but length of the ftone. The two 

 pentagons at the top of the ftone, Fig. 13. being oppofed by two 

 others like them, behind the fmall Trapezium at the bottom of it ; 

 and the fmall Trapezium at the bottom, by another like it behind 

 the two short pentagons at the top ; and fo the oblong parallelo- 

 grams, and large pentagons at the ends of the ftone, Fig. 14. 



n DslfHifi. Natura!elib.2+. cap- 2+- r PJeudodax. Epidm. lib. 3. cap. 13. 



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