80 LETTERS TO MERRETT. 



flower is mouldred away. [See also p. 89 infra, where 

 Merrett aptly compares the latter to the flowers of the 

 Grape Hyacinth.] 



No. VII. 



[BIBLIOTHECA BODLEIANA. MS. RAWLINSON D. Cviii. 

 SR THO BROWN TO DR. MERRETT.] 



\Fol. 105.] Sr I craue your pardon for this delayed 

 returne unto your last, whose courteus acceptance & 

 worthy entertaynment [?] deserued [a speed blotted oui\ 

 even a speedier reply. The small plant may fitly come 

 in among the corallines upon the [diff crossed out'\ 

 account of articulation Icthyorachius \see Note 114] I 

 think will bee a good Diference [?]. whether you will 

 subexpand [?] the word I referre it to yourself, certhia 

 may best bee vertice aureo \word blotted out] or vertice 

 aureo penicello vix imitando. morinellus marinus [see 

 Note 28] I think rather then Aquaticus becuse it is seen 

 most about the sea coast. Anas alis oculatis^^" rather 

 then Anser for it is not altogether so longe as a wild 

 duck, of porci solidipedes [see Note 118] there are still 

 in this country in some places, and I am promised a 

 pigge by a Gentleman that hath still a boar and sow of 

 that kind. I tooke notice of them 26 years ago & having 

 not lately [met with crossed out] met with any thought 

 the race had been worne out butt I perceue it is not — 

 they are whole footed in the forfeet & have [only crossed 

 out] a seame only in the hinder, so they are animalia 

 duplici nomine imunda. The wild swans or elk [see 

 Note 8] in [very crossed out] lasting cold winters are most 

 plentifull. It is larger then the River swan somewhat 

 gray & of a lowder note & [differenced call crossed out] 



'^ Possibly the Pintail, Dafila acuta (Linn.), see p. 77. 



