LETTERS TO MERRETT. 69 



No. IV. 

 " The fourth Letter to Dr. Merrett Decemb xxix!' [1668] 



\Fol. 42 verso:\ Sr I am very joyfull that you haue 

 recouered your health whereof I heartily wish the con- 

 tinuation for your own and the publick good. And I 

 humbly thank you for the courteous present of your 

 booke.iii with much delight and satisfaction I had read 

 the same not once in English I must needs acknowledge 

 your coment more acceptable to me then the text which 

 I am sure is an hard obscure peice without it. though I 

 haue not been a stranger unto the vitriarie Art both in 

 England and abroad. 



I perceiue you haue proceeded farre in your Pinax. 

 These few at present I am bold to propose & hint unto 

 you intending God willing to salute you agayne. 



A paragraph might probably be annexed unto Quer- 

 cus. Though wee haue not all the exotick oakes, nor 

 their excretions yet these and probably more supercres- 

 cences productions or excretions may bee obserued in 

 England. 



Viscum — polypodium — Juli pilulse — 



Gemms foraminatse [formicatse ?] folioru — 



excrementu fungosum verticibus scatens — 



Excrementum Lanatum — 



Capitula squamosa jacsese semula. 



Nodi — melleus Liquor — Tubera radicum 



vermibus scatentia — Muscus — Lichen — 



Fungus — varae quercinae."^ 



"1 This evidently refers to the gift of a copy of Merrett's Latin translation 

 of Antonio Neri's L'Arte Vetraria (Firenze, 1612, 4to), published under 

 the title of " The Art of Glass, translated into English with some 

 observations on the Author," &c., in 1662, and a Latin edition in 1668. 



U2 The Rev. E. N. Bloomfield has most kindly assisted me in attempt- 

 ing to identify the Parasitic products of the Oak mentioned above : 



