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COLLECTIO SlOANIANA. 



The Reader will now prepare himfelf 

 for the Remarks that are to be made on 

 the Contents of the next Room, which 

 are no lefs curious and worthy of Notice 

 than thofe we have already gone through. 

 To begin with the Repofitories, or Cabi- 

 nets, the firfl: we meet with are 



Vegetabilia. Fructus. Ligna. 



Under thefe Titles are comprehended 

 a great Variety of foreign Fruits, diffe- 

 rent Kinds of aromatic and other curious 

 Woods, many Sorts of Gum, Barks, and 

 a numerous Train of other vegetable Pro- 

 du6lions. We fliall firil: dire^^ the Reader 

 to the Scythian Lamb, otherwife called 

 Baromez, Barometz, or Baranetz, It is 

 the Root of a Plant much like Fern that 

 grows in Mufcoij, It is faid that the Na- 

 ture of it is fuch, that it will fuffer no 

 Plant whatever to thrive near it. Its 

 Root is covered by a fort of Down re- 

 fembling Wool, and there are Shoots, or 

 H 3 Fibres, 



