i4~& Mr. Ray to Br. Robin fon. 



z. Whether the Vapour afcending out of the 

 Earth, and caufing an Appearance of boiling in a 

 Water called the Boiling Fountain at Peroul near 

 Montpellier, be inflammable by the Application of a 

 lighted Candle, &c. as that is which caufes the like 

 Phenomenon at Wigan in Lancafhire ? 



3. Of what fort of Mofs they make their Cyprefs- 

 Powder^ and whether of more forts than one at Mont- 

 pettier*) either bring a Sample of it, or defcribe it fo 

 exaftly, that one may not miftake it. 



4. Whether the Chondrilla Caerulea Cyani Capitulis 

 of Bauhinus, called commonly Sefamoides^ have na- 

 turally a full or double Flower, or only confifting of 

 a Pale or Border of Leaves, encircling a Thrum of 

 fmall Flowers, which are vulgarly miftaken for Sta* 

 mina ? 



The like Query I would make about the Cich&- 

 rium Pratenfe Veficarium of Columna, which grows in 

 the Fields about Leghorn^ as the former does plenti- 

 fully about Montpellier. 



f . Whether the Stcechas Citrina altera tenuifolia 

 Jive Italica J. B. be fpecifically diftinft from the 

 St oec. Citrina tenuifolia Narbonenfis J. B.? It grows 

 plentifully in the Mountains of Liguria^ as about Ga- 

 w, Foltagioj &c. To be fure of this, the beft Way 

 would be to compare the. Plants together. 



<J. I obferved in the Borders of fome Fields about 

 Leghorn a fort of ^tefoil^ with a little Spike of bright 

 purple or red Flowers, which afterwards turned to 

 ipumofe Veficles, like to the Head of the Strawberry 

 Trefoil. Whether this be the 5T nfolium Folliculateum 

 Jive Veficarium minus purpureum J. B.? 



7. Whether the Sefeli Pratenfe Monfpelienfium be 

 be a Species diftin^t from our Englifh Meadow Saxi- 

 frage ? To me it feemed the fame. 



8. There is a fort of Jacea purpurea capituk fpi- 

 nofo growing on the Sands a little beyond Naples 5 of 

 which I defire either the Seed^ or a Plant dried, or 



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