146 Dr. Plukenett to Mr. Ray. 



6. As for the Gramen fpicd laxd pyramidali I was 

 pofitive herein, becaufe Mr. Doody^ who communi- 

 cated the Grafs to you, communicated your Name to 

 me, and affixed it here. The Gram. Phalaroid. I be- 

 lieve may be your Lufitanicum^ fince mine was drawn % 

 from a dry'd Specimen I long ago gather'd in Mr. 

 Morgan^ Garden, where it feems you had yours. 

 The Gram. Cyperoid. lanuginof. was defign'd from the 

 dry'd Leaf, and rather lefs than fo large as it. Per- 

 haps it was a Plant of the fame Kind, more than or- 

 dinarily luxuriant in its Spikes. 



7. As for the Gram. Cyperoides elegans [pica compo* 

 Jitd, if there be any Miftake herein, it muft lie at 

 Mr. Doody's Door, for he it was, who with great Aflu- 

 rance, appropriated your Name to this very Graft, 

 and I think writ it with his own Hand. 



8. I am glad you tell me my Lichen parvus ere&us 9 

 &V. is not what you intended by the Lichen minimus 

 foliolis laciniatis^ it being by fo much more my own : 

 And yet you fee how unwilling I was to make it fo 

 without your farther AfTurance. Indeed the Source 

 of moft of thefe my Failures, was the Averfion I had 

 of multiplying Species without apparent Caufe, or 

 giving n\y felf the Credit of a Difcovery which per- 

 haps was due to fome other. 



p. Your feparating my Melilotus luteus procumbens 

 from yours of MeJJina is truly inftru&ive. 



10. Your Corymbifera Millefolii umbelld I thought 

 muft fall between the Millefol. fanacetifol. Morif. and 

 the Ptarmica Alpin. friumfetti. And therefore in my 

 Catalogue I put the doubtful Quare to them both, 

 efpecially fince to the former I find an Afterisk pre- 

 fixed, denoting you had not then feen the Plant * and 

 therefore I could not peremptorily exclude it from a 

 Competitorfhip with that to which you have now af- 

 fign'd it, I confefs that PafTage in your Appendix had 

 cfcaped me. 



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