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V. Defcripiion of a Plant yieUing A fa foetlda. In a Letter 

 Jrom John Hope, NJ. D. F. R. S\ to Sir Jofeph Banks, 

 Bart. P. R, S. 



Read December 9, 17B4. 



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

 SIR, Edinburgh, Auguft i8, 1784. 



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

 account of the Afa foetida, and the botanical defcription of 

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



I have the honour of being, with much refpe6l andefleem, &c. 



JOHN HOPE. 



ASA F OE T I D A. 



Planta umbellifera, tripedalis, ere61:a, ramofa, glauca, 

 flore luteo. 

 Radix perennis. 



Folia radicalia fex, procumbentia, trilobo-ovata, multoties 

 pinnatim divifa ; follolis incifis, lubacutis, fub- 

 decurrentibus ; petiolo communi fuperne piano, linea 

 «levata longitudlnaliter per medium dccurrente. 



2 CaiiUs 



