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I would let you have this belt Specimen of it, which 

 I queftion not but 'tis known to you. If you pleafc 

 to give your Sentiments about it, youll extremely 

 oblige, &t. 



Mr. Ray'* Anfwer. 



IRoceivM your Letter with the Specimen enclofed* 

 which feems to me to be the Sefamoides Sala- 

 7nantkum magnum of Cluftus, or Lychnis vifcofa jlore 

 mufcofo of C. B. which I have obferved to grow plen- 

 tifully upon Newmarket Heathy that Part I mean that 

 is in Suffolk ; for on Cambridgejhire Side I have not 

 found it. I wonder it fliould have fuch a Virtue 

 as you mention 5 but it feems it is well attefted. 

 Dr, Hulfe writes to me he finds it in Grayes Farrier. y 

 If you go to Jamaica, I pray you a fafe and prof* 

 perous Voyage. We expe£t great Things from you, 

 no lefs than the refolving all our Doubts about the 

 Names we meet with of Plants in that Part of Ame- 

 rica, as the Dildoe, Mammee, Mangrove, Manchinello^ 

 Avellanse purgatrices, the Sower- fop, and Cujlard* 

 apple. Or moft of which tho' I am pretty well in- 

 formed and fatisfied by Dr. Robinfon, yet I fhall be 

 glad to be either confirmed, or better informed by 

 lb knowing and curious an Obferver as your felf. X 

 ihould be glad to know what manner of Fruit the 

 Mandioca bears > for (whatever fome have written) 

 that it is not without, I am confident. You may al- 

 fo pleafe to obferve whether there be any Species of 

 Plants common to America and Europe, and whether 

 Ambergrife be the Juice of any Sort of Metal or Aloe 

 dropt into the Sea, as tfrapham would have it. What 

 Kind of ' Arundo it is, the fame Author calls the Dumb- 



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