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by the next years ships, please god to allow me health ; I wish for your 

 new works much. you think very naturally that my Trophis & the Bu- 

 cephalon of plumier are the same plants, it is very probable but I have 

 no certainty of it. it is a very kindly wholesome plant the berry* are 

 sweet and pleasant, & the leaves much coveted by horses & most kind 

 of cattle. As to Insect we have but very few here & not above 4 or 



5 kinds of birds. but I do think I shall send you yet from here some 

 very rare plants. here we have a sulphur & iron mine w^ supplyes 

 with hot waters every where at the source the water is boyhng hot & 

 very black, charged with a light black substance w'' sticks to the stones 

 in the strome w^ examined is nothing but sulphur & particles of iron, 



6 exposed for some lime under cover shorts out salts of steel; in other 

 holes nothing exhales but sulphur in hot steams & the air, every where 

 about is charged with these & the vitrioHc acid here eveiy thing is bare^ 

 but the woods about very green & produce in particular two plants w^ 

 I have not seen before. te shrub seldom rises above 3 feet & the flo- 

 wer spikes are commonly double. 



Galix parvus quadriphyllus coloratus. Corolla 4dripetala calice 

 triplo major. Stam. filamenta S*-° corolla duplo longiora, erecta, antheris 

 rotundis germen oblongum bisulcatum, stili duo breviores. stigmata ob- 

 tusiuscula simplicia, capsula bilocularis oblonga polisperma. and another 

 plant that grows perfectly like a small Iris but I cant make the flowers 

 out. I send you but little of this for fear of spoiling the specimen which 

 I intend for you next year, viz. the small rootleef & a small sprig of 

 the flowertop. — There is a small reclining plant also common here 

 w^ I cant make out among your genera, it is of the Angiospermata. 

 Stam. filamenta i^ quorum duo longiora e macula in fauce labii infe- 

 rioris oriuntur, recurvantur in arcum divaricatum, & resurgunt sub labio 

 superiori, ubi Antherae oblongse adnascuntur. duo vero breviora. Stam. 

 lateraliter oriuntur e parti superiore tubi, ulterius surgunt & antheras 

 sub labio superiori jungunt. pericarp. capsula oblongo-acuminata unilo- 

 cularis, Sem* plurima. 



I must conclude. & remain D' Sir 



Your very obed* serv* 

 Mountserrat Juni 1. 1766. Pattr Browne 



P. S, Petrea. Semen unicum amigdalinse substantiae cute tenui 

 tectum fundo calicis inclusum. 



