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when discovered proving to be things of no great vakie. 

 If it please God I get well, I intend this week a journey 

 into Essex. Your experiments made upon trees brought 

 to the fire, I have as yet heard nothing of from Mr. Olden- 



Miiycrh 'F ^ 'F "jk TN 

 Middleton, April 13, 1671 . 



Sir Philip Skippon to Mr. Eay. 



Sir, — I should have sent you the last week the inclosed 

 particulars which Wdlisell desires you to take notice of. 

 The one is, as he says, a Salix n. d. that casts its outward 

 bark and stands naked : it hath a remarkable lulus. It 

 grows near the small brook that runs into that river nigh 

 Darking in Surrey. The other is, as he would have it 

 called, Veronica sjjec. ParonycMce fol. But. facie [Vero- 

 nica triphyllos, Linn.] It grows at Rowtam, in Norfolk, 

 betwixt the town and the highway, twelve miles before 

 you come to Norwich ; and at Mewell, in Suffolk, betwixt 

 the two windmills and the warren-lodge in a wheat- 

 ground, on the right hand of Lynn road ; and in gravel- 

 pits, two miles beyond Barton Mills, on the ridge of the 

 hill, where a small cartway crosseth the road to Lynn. 

 It grows also in the grass thereabout very plentifully 

 nigh the latter end of April. Of these two I have sent 

 samples. 



He hath discovered Hellehorine flo. alho [CepJialan- 

 thera grandiJlorci\ to grow a mile on this side Greenhithe, 

 in a valley near a church, and in the beech wood nigh 

 Darking. He hath also found Absinth, inod. [Artemisia 

 campestris, Linn.] a mile from Barton Mills, where a 

 small stone standeth in the road to Lynn for to guide 

 passengers ; and in the furze bushes under the hill 

 plentifully; and on the road to Norwich, before you 

 come to a town called Elden, where a great road from 



