470 CORRESPONDENCE OP RAY. 



I was suspicious of when I wrote my History, upon com- 

 paring the Jamaica pepper with Clusius's description 

 of the fruit of his amomum, wherein he saith it contained 

 but one seed, and takes no notice of the umbihcus or 

 corolla on the top of its fruit, but was fully confirmed in 

 upon the sight of your figure of the Jamaica pepper-bush, 

 and a branch of Clusius's armommn, in which the leaves 

 differ too much to be of the same plant. 



I shall now, according to your desu'e, give you those 

 literal errata I have observed in yom- Catalogue, which 

 are very inconsiderable and not worth the taking notice 

 of, such as you may find thousands of in my books : 

 p. 4, 1. ^,pro fuciformi %e fusi formi ; 1. \1 ,;pro ejectum 

 lege ejecta; p. 9, 1. 3, lege a<pv\\^ ; 1. 10, Tpyoi^vW^ 

 and aKiaZc oKOTuXr/Swv ^aavaKTwou^riq. Columna, indeed, 

 writes these words : a<^v\\ov, and T^iyJx^vWov, and 

 CTKtaStKOTuXjjSov, referring them, I suppose, to the Greek 

 word ^^vov, understood, but they being joined with 

 muscus, I think it is better to put them in the masculine 

 gender; 1. 73, /e^e Laricens ; p. 20, 1. 21, lege Maravara; 

 p. 26, 1. 12, I was troubled at the word lucum, suspect- 

 ing it to be mistaken ; 1. 20, lege Castagneda ; p. 34, 1. 4, 

 lege ^Lrayyo^opov ; p. 23, 1. 36, lege Lonchitidis ; p. 34, 

 1. 14, lege panicula; item 1. ] 7 ; item 1. 22 ; item 1, 26, 

 28, 30, 33, 34. But I will go no further, none of these, 

 except the Greek, can be suspected to be mistakes of the 

 author, but only typographical errata, nor can stop or 

 abuse the reader. The truth is, I have not met with a 

 book better corrected. If anything afterwards occurs 

 that needs mending, I shall give you advice of it. My 

 wife gives you her humble service. So I rest. 



Sir, 

 Your very affectionate and obliged friend and servant, 



John Ray. 



p. 94, 1. 2^, pro Homin. lege Hormini; p. 95, 1. 23, 

 pro polyrhizo /eye poly rrhizos ; p. 129, 1. 27, pro illinita 

 lege illita ; pro pericutietur, percutietm\ 



