110 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
w' their boughs and roots very sound timber, and w* is po 
admirable is that none of those trees ov in Ireland... . I wa 
lately at Kinsale where I saw Captain Dampiere, wt whom I ok 
y*and all y* gentlemen of y* Royall Segue s health.” 
Having mentioned a sea creature, “finer a ade deal than 
that I found upon y® sands of Bologne,”’ he contin 
“T saw by y? old fforts Virga aurea in Shonda and a very 
fine fucus w Mr. Ray calls I thinke sea girdle and hangers. I 
have it whole root and all very entire; ’tis as fin’ly furbulow’d as 
any Lady’s Petticoat abt ye Root, and some part of y® edges; the 
top ends in severall a leaves. “Tis a noble plant and I keep it 
with other things for you. I found another three yards long w™ 
is composed of soraeall long threads like small roopes but after I 
had dried it those roopes became flatt and strip’d; ‘tis a very 
pretty plant. A pretty Sedum verm. min. I found with red 
rs upon Rocks, but I found amongst y* Rocks abondance of 
sampier in flower and a fern FF ecco hasten extraordinary w™ 
is beautyfull all over and by its shining stalk seems to me a 
capillery: it grows about an inch and a half broad, beautiful 
ens oee and is not branch’d but grows in the nature of a Poly- 
- He concludes by an anticipation that his company would be 
sent to Portugal, exe I hope I shall be better able to satisfy 
your curiosity than here.” The expedition to Portugal, however, 
did not take place: his pees letter (f. 192) is dated from Limerick, 
September 29th, 1703, and relates to some financial agen in 
which Sloane had been helpful to him: a reference in this lett 
shows that Bonnivert was married. On ae back of the Ag is 
a note: “I could wish I had along with me a good microscope, 
one of those glasses that shew the weight a iiors and Bauhin’s 
Prodr.” 
Bonnivert’s connection with Sloane and his reference above 
quoted to “ the gentlemen of the Royal Society ” indicate that he 
was on terms of intimacy with the leading of science of his 
time. His name does not appear in the list of members, but the 
fact that he communicated to the Society some “ observations on 
hurricanes’ by Captain Langford ee Trans. xx. 407, 1698) 
shows that his position was recognised. Plukenet, to whom, as 
we ~~ see labs abe brought specimens on his return from 
Treland, speaks m a i 
312) ; ass, Becca: (Mus Pet. n. 405) places him among his 
‘ingenious friends.” He also gave plants to te AE aun 
lections, seem e been patter g: later than the rest, or in 
some other exceptional manner; they are intercalated in the series 
as vols. 84*, 85*, and 86*, and contain n of the usual MS. 
references to Ray’s Historia, glen, h itis eat (in 84*) that some 
of the plants are “‘ perhaps not to be found elsewhere in S. H. S. 
