148 Dr. Robinfon to Mr, Ray. 



ken out of a late French Author, not to be met withal 

 now in Bookfellers Shops, the Priefts having forbid 

 it. I am confident 'tis faithful, and will afford you 

 fome Light. La Macroule ou Macreufe pajfe conflanu 

 ment a Paris ^ en Normandie & ailleurs pour la veritable 

 Oye d' ecojfe. 



Monfieur Tournefort^ a Languedoc Man, and Do- 

 €tor of Montpellier, dernonftrates now the Plants in 

 the King's Garden here. He fpeaks with great Ve- 

 neration of you > but in his Demonftration of the 

 Biftorta Alpina he diffented from you, faying, that 

 you confounded the two Species together ^ whereas 

 he affirm'd they were really diftinft. Since our com- 

 ing to Paris we have obferv'd a few Plants growing 

 wild, that may be not at all found in England, or 

 rarely, as the Refeda Crifpa Qallica, defcrib'd by Boc- 

 ctme, the Conyza Canadenjis annua alba acris Unarm 

 foliis $ Pfyllium ereStum, Bauhin. pin. Veronica erecla 

 anguftifol. B. pin. Pulmonaria maculofa, B.pin. Turrit is 

 minor, B. pin. Afclepias flore alb. B. pin. Sideritis hirfu- 

 ia ereffa, B.pin, Chamadrys repens ?naj. vulgar. B . pin. 

 Chamaciftus plant ag. fol. B. pin. Securidaca dumetorum 

 jflore vario filiquis cornic. B.pin. Fmnum Burgundiacum* 

 Attraffilys lutea, B. pin. Pardon, Sir, the imperfe£fc 

 Names, for we have few or no Books by us, unlefs 

 your Travels, and z pr 3 more. No more Trouble 

 at prefent from. 



Mr. Ray. to Dr. Robinfon. 



SIR, ' / . " |jj 



TT Render you many Thanks for the Pains you hive 

 taken in endeavouring to refolve and fatisfy me as 

 to the Query concerning the Macreufe. The Defcri- 



