CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 893 



floris pultem ingenit, inque stylum terminatur pollicem 

 et dimidium longum et inferius pvope extremum intortum. 

 Pructus isthic cum maturescit et grandescit formam cordis 

 assumit, et granvila triangularia continet et neque fruc- 

 tuin nee semina perfecta vidi color floris e rubro violaceus 

 est, ut et summitatum calicis. Caiiles et floram pediculi 

 albi sunt, carnosi teneri et fragiles, unusquisqne caulis 

 18 circiter florum fasciculum sustinet. 



P. Sherard ob convenientiam notarum plantam banc 

 eandem cum clandestina Tournefortii flore subcoeruleo 

 ' Institut. Rei Herb.,' p. 652, sibi persuadet cujns opinio 

 et nobis verisimilis videtur. Uescriptio autem J). Tourne- 

 fort sic se habet clandestina est plantae genus flore 

 nionopetalo personate, inferne tubulate, superne in duo 

 labia diviso quorum superius fornicatum inferius vero 

 tripartitum. Ex calice autem tabulate pariter crenatoque 

 sergit pistillum quod infima floris partem perfodit, 

 abitque deinde in fructum oblongum .... salarem 

 in duas partes dehiscentem vi elactica semina subrotunda 

 propellantes. Clandestinae speciem unicani novi cujus 

 varietates sunt. 



Mr. E,AY to Mr. James Petivee. 



B. N., AprU 15, 1701. 



Sir, — It is not long since I wrote to you at large, in 

 answer to yours of April 1, since which time Dr. Robinson 

 tells me that you had an opportunity of sending to 

 Leyden, and would do me the kindness to convey the 

 manuscript of my ' Methodus Plantarum Emendata ' to 

 Dr. Hotton, in order to the printing of it there ; where- 

 upon I have sent up the copy to you, entreating you to 

 take the care of it, and to transmit it to him when occa- 



