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gether, for I have not leisure enough to consider what I 

 write, nor to add more. 



WoUarton, June 29, 1670. 



Mr. Weat to Mr. Lister. 



Dear Friend, — In my last I committed a mistake, 

 and therefore it is requisite I make haste to mend it. It 

 was in the name of the Alsine, which I told you Thomas 

 Willisell found in Norfolk, and sent to me. I should 

 have titled it Alsine folio profunde secto,J!ore purpurea 

 aut violaceo, J. B. Triphyllos carulea, C. B. [Fero7iica 

 triphi/llos, Linn.] The name I sent you in my last is 

 LoheU. Tho. Willisell hath been lately here in his re- 

 turn out of the north, and brought with him several rare, 

 and some nondescript, plants, viz. Pyrola alsines flore 

 ewropma [Trientalis europaa, Linn.] in flower, which he 

 found in Northumberland, near the Pict's Wall, five miles 

 from Hexham. Salix pumila folio rotunda, J. B. [_S. re- 

 ticulata, Linn.*], on the top of Ingleborough Hill, 

 Ecliium marinnm, P. B. [Lithospermum maritimwn], near 

 a water-mUl between the Saltpans and Berwick. Orobus 

 sylvaticus, n. d. [0. sylvaticus, Linn.], at Bigglesby, five 

 miles from Pereth, in Cumberland. ChamcB-periclyme- 

 num dictum sed male \Cornus suecica, Linn.], on the 

 north-west of the highest of the Cheviot Hills. Penta- 

 phylloidesfriiticosum sive arborescens [Potentillafruticosa, 



* [As that plant has not been found on Ingleborough since Ray's time, and 

 S. herbacea (not included in the two editions of his Synopsis, published by 

 Ray himself, but added by Dillenius in the third edition) is found there, I 

 am led to think that Ray may have misapplied J. Bauhin's name, calling 

 S. herbacea by the name really belonging to S. reticulata. Whernside, in 

 Yorkshire, and " North Wales, on the tops of most high mountains," are . 

 given in the Synopsis as other stations for S. pumila folio rotunio, J. B. ; 

 but the plant found on Whernside, and frequently on the Welsh mountains 

 is S. herbacea. S. reticulata has not been found in Wales. The report of its 

 growing there rests solely upon Ray's authority.] 



