on Mr. Ray's Synopjis Sttrp. Brit. 



was attended with frightful Ejulations and Howlings 5 

 fo that they well enough agree in this Particular. And 

 it cannot furely but be allow'd on all Hands, that this 

 Indian Bangue is a true and genuine Hemp? tho' in the 

 mean jime I muft pronounce it fpecifically diftin6b 

 from our European Sort. I confefs I was perfe6tly 

 furpriz'd to find Dr. Herman in his Academick Cata- 

 logue fo peremptorily aflfert it among the Race of 

 Althaeas, and to promife the W orld an entire Hiftory 

 of it under that Head in his defired Mufieum Leylani- 

 cum, till calling to mind a Miftake that had crept into 

 the Garden of Chelfea, where lb me time before the 

 Catalogue came out, the Sabdariffa Cluf. (which is 

 no other than an Indian Alcea) was with mighty O- 

 itentation expofed to View for the Bangue Indorum. 

 I prefently bethought, that as that Demonftrator had 

 impos'd upon Dr. Lifter and other worthy Gentle- 

 men here at home, fo holding at that time a Corres- 

 pondence in Holland^ he might in all Probability 

 have tranfmitted the Occafion for Dr. Herman's moil 

 palpable Hallucination abroad. 



Mr. Lfiwyd to Mr. Ray. 



Honoured S J R, Oxford, July i. 1690. 



TH E form'd Stones were very acceptable. The 

 Oculi Serpent um are indeed of the fame 

 Kind with thofe they call "Toad-Stones. The Cats- 

 heads feem to me to be Arches or Joints of fome 

 Cornu Hammonis. Baculi Si Pauli are of the fame 

 Subftance with thofe Stones that refemble the Briftles 

 of fome American Echini, which (as I mention 'd in 

 my laft) Dr. Plot has call'd Lapides Judaici; nor is 

 the Doftor much miftaken therein, for the real Lapi- 

 des Judaici feem to be nothing elfe but over-grown 



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