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of nitre. the root of the Ghiococca is an excell*^ attenuant & the Bark 

 of the root of the Breinia a faimd diuretic. 

 I remain D'^ Sir 



Your most obed.* humble servt & admirer 

 Pattr. Browne 

 May the U^^ 1765 

 Mountserat 



Utanskrift: 



Illustri nobiliq''- Domino 

 i> Carol". Linnao 



Comiti van Line &c &c 



Upsaliis 



in Stveadland 



To the care of 



Jfr j^m Chapingdale 



Mrch' in Copenhagen. 



Linn. Soc, Vol. II: 200—201. 



229. 



Dear Sir 



Just now I received your favör of the 21 Jany for w'^ I am greatly 

 oblidged. I find I forgot to givs you my address, hut you have hit on 

 a very good one, every letter or parcell you are pleased to send to 

 M"^ \ym Ghippendale merc* in Copenhagen, for me, will be taken great 

 care of & come certainly to hand. When last I wrote to you, I had 

 not one book of yours or my own here. otherways would not have blun- 

 dered so much & it is but within these 2 hours y* ^ I rec*^ your Genera 

 & Species from St Groix, the old Editions only have I seen, I am satis- 

 fyed of the Petrea & you may depend y* the last description I sent you 

 of the Sauvagesia is just & natural I do believe y' in my history of 

 Jam* to be frorn a dry specimen & not so just, for I remember y^ & 

 one or two more to have escaped an examination in the fresh State I 

 can not recolect to have yet seen anything like the Mathiola or Brossea 

 of Plumier, unless a species of my Halesia a small tree with a crimson 

 berry w^ by its fine down realy does seem very like velvet. it grows 

 in S* Groix. 1 have the descriptions of some curious plants y* grow 

 there w^ 1 will get ready to send you with some plants of this island 



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