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Mr. Wray to Mr. Lifter. 



S I Rj Wollarton, June 29, 1670. 



FOR my own part, I have made *ew Difcoveries 

 in Plants this Summer -> only I have obferved 

 Gramen agrorum venti [pica Lob. to grow very plen- 

 tifully among the Corn in the fandy Grounds in this 

 Country, and have now feen the Polemonium-Petraum 

 Gefn. in Flower and Seed all about Nottingham - C a file 

 on the Walls and Rocks. The Pink wnich grows 

 by the Highway Sides of the fandy Hill you defcend 

 going from Nottingham to Lenton, I find to be the 

 fame with that which grows on the Hills about Sandy 

 in Bedford/hire, near Juniper-Hill in Cambridgefhire^ 

 Bridgenorth in Shropshire, and in many Places of Berk- 

 Jhire. "Tho. Willi fell fent me Alfine foliis hederaceis 

 rutce modo divifis, (if I miftake not I ufe Bauhine's 

 Name) which he found fome where in Norfolk, and 

 a Sort of Willow growing about Darking, which, as 

 be faith, calls its Bark, and itands bare fome part of 

 the Year. Mijjletoe growing on the Hazelly I took No- 

 tice of this Spring near Braintree in Effexy but that 

 is a Thing fcarce worth the mentioning. Your Ex- 

 periments concerning the Motion of the Sap of Trees 

 do marvelloufly agree with thofe we have this Year 

 made, as you may perceive by a Letter of Mr. Wil- 

 lughby's, inferted in the Philofophical Tranfaftions, 

 wherein there is a bad Mi Hake, which perverts the 

 Senfe, of the W ord Morning inftead of Noon. Mr. WiU 

 lughby prefents his Service to you, and wonders you 

 ihould ftick fo to the Number of 31 Species of Spi- 

 ders 5 whereas either he deceives himfelf, or he hath 

 found out many note, and believes there may be, at 

 the leaft, dot^'j that Number in England. In your 



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