% 1 8 Dr. PluketiettV Obfervathm, 



produces its Umbels not only a Top, but alfo on the 

 Side of the Stalk, z or 3 epj alts foliorum r and Tome?, 

 times one or two along the upper Stalks without any 

 Leaf at all j and I have Teen it above 7 Foot high. 



Page 247. Among the Emendanda I find a Query 

 about the Cnicus Spinofior of the Parijian Catalogue^ 

 which I take to be nb other than that perennial Sort 

 you fet down in your incomparable Cat. $ngl and obr 

 ferv'd it to grow plentifully at lefler Diftances from 

 the Sea, both in Italy^ Sicily^ and the more Southern 

 Tracks of France j whofe Refemblance, thq' it come 

 well nigh that Figure in Cluf, under the Title of Carr 

 Una Sylv. which I efteem no more than our fponta- 

 neous annual Sort, yet certainly it feems more nearly 

 to refpond the Heracantha Tab. Jc. 697. both as to 

 its Figuration and Manner of growing, piitting fortl* 

 its Flowers in the Way of an Umbel. And tho' this 

 be made ufe of as a Synonyme to exprefs the forego- 

 ing common Kind^ as we find it even in C. Baub. 

 himfelf, yet I am inclin'd to believe this very Her$- 

 cantha \% nothing different from the Cnicus of the Pa- 

 rifians^ and in all likelihood the fame with the Cnicus 

 Sylv. Spinoftor Polycaph. of the fame C. Bauh. Not 

 therefore to be accepted for our common Kind, nor 

 indeed the Acarna S. jfcorna* altera Apula Column. 

 which latter, both from the Fabjan Defcription of, 

 itj and Synonome of C. Bauh. which feems by hira 

 particularly adapted from the Parvity of its Flowers 

 And Heads, mull be quite another thing. But what 

 this is I cannot deterniine, as never having teen the 

 Plant, and therefore do iubmit it to your moft ex- 

 cellent and difcretiv^ Judgment. 



The Polygala repens nivea C. B. P. repens nuperor. 

 hob. I do readily grafit i$ a Polygonum^ but extremely 

 differing from t^e £olyg. Serpylli folio verticillat. 

 Cat/Angl. parvum fl. albo v$rticilldt .J. B. which comes 

 finder a much nearer Refemblance to the Polyg.muf- 

 cofum P, Boec* tho' it be very different from this too, 



