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V. Defcription of a Plant yielding Afa foetlda. In a Letter 

 jrom John Hope, M, D. F. R, S. to Sir Jofeph Banks, 

 Bart, P. R. S. 



Read December 9, 1784. 



TO SIR JOSEPH BANKS, BART. J.R.S. 

 S I R, Edinburgh, Auguft 18, Ij84» 



I BEG you will do me the honour of prefenting the inclofed 

 account of the Afa foetida, and the botanical defcription of 

 the plant, with the drawings, to the Royal Society. 



1 have the honour of being, with much refpcd and efteem, &c^ 



JOHN HOPE. 



A S A F OE T I D A. 



PLAKTAumbellifera, tripedalis, ere6la, ramofa, glauca^ 

 flore luteo.- 

 Radix perennis.. 



Folia radicalia fex, procumbentia, trilobo-ovata, multoties 

 pinnatim divifa ; foliolis incifis, fubacutis, fub- 

 decurrentibus ; petlolo communi fuperne piano, linea 

 elevata longitudinaliter per mediunx decuprente. 



a Cauh's, 



