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Sir Philip Skippon to Mr. Ray. 



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I Should have fent you the laft Week the enclosed 

 Particulars which Willifell defires you to take 

 oticeof. The one is, as he fays, a Salix n.d. that 

 cafts its outward Bark, and ftands naked : It hath a 

 remarkable lulus. It grows near the fmall Brook 

 that runs into that River nigh Darking in Surry. 

 The other is, as he would have it call'd, Veronica 

 Spec. Paronychia fol. Rut. facie. It grows at Row t am 

 in Norfolk, betwixt the Town and the Highway, iz 

 Miles before you come to Norwich ; and at Mewell 

 in Suffolk, betwixt the two Wind-Mills and the 

 Warren-Lodge in a Wheat-Ground, on the Right 

 Hand of Lynn- Road y and in Gravel-Pits, z Miles 

 beyond Barton- Mills, on the Ridge of the Hill, 

 where a fmall Cart-way crofleth the Road to Lynn. 

 It grows alfo in the Grafs thereabout very plentifully 

 nigh the latter End of April. Of thefe two I have 

 fent Samples. 



He hath difcovered Helleborine flo. albo to grow a 

 Mile on this Side Green-Hithe, in a Valley near a 

 Church, and in the Beech Wood nigh Darking : He 

 hath alfo found Abfinth. Inod. a Mile from Barton- 

 Mills, where a fmall Stone ftandeth in the Road to 

 Lynn for to guide Paflengers* and in their Furz- 

 IJufhes under the Hill plentifully, and on the Road 

 to Norwich, before you come to a Town calPd Elden, 

 where a great Road from Lynn into the Countrey 

 crofleth Norwich Road, and in the Way on the other 

 Side of Elden P as you go up that Hill' towards 

 Norwich, 



Mr. 



