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the same locality a small Ae ited — with the eee and 
‘other dry’d plants ’’ he had 0 Chat ees mes 
rently mistaking the desnimadn, “thonpht vido, 
wrote to Bonnivert for its ase locality ; Bonnier ‘plies (4058, 
5): ‘You seem to be desirous to know where I found that 
ball you call Truffle. When I quake d at Dorchester in Oxford- 
near to another on the stump of a young oak. i am afraid you 
may be eri for I am confident it is none of y® Tubera Terre 
w* I know very well, salto by y® smell nor by the tast. I must 
tell you $0 St that I was a little jealous of it till I had cut one in 
two and tasted of it, but I found it of a very harsh tast much like 
oak apples. I know very well there are some at Rushton’s wilder- 
ness, my L* Cullen’s house wher I have often been dureing his 
life. And I was but six ener» ago wth = friend Dt tgayeee sie 
n September, 1702, Bonnivert went, appare otitly. at short 
ee to Dublin, whence he writes to Sloane (4039 f. 21) that ms 
D* Richardson at Hallifax and at his own house, where your 
health was not fforgott®.” The crossing from Parkgate occupied 
twenty days, “by occasion of the storms and contrary winds: twice 
were we driven to y® Isle of Man, where I had little time to look for 
fini much “bobey as well as notes showing his interest in 
mbilicus Veneris and Parietaria, several sorts of Sedum, Osmun 
Regalis. They digg out of those bogs as I have seen firr trees 
