Dr. Plukenett to Mr. Ray. 247 



1 11 I*could almoft have fworn I had been right in 

 the Reference of my Mufcus Coralloides to your Name 

 of Mufcus pennatus ramulis £5? capillament. falcatis^ it 

 does fo exa&ly anfwer that Title } and therefore your 

 Monition here is extreme kind. 



iz. The Salix long.fol. hirfuta rofea I did not pro- 

 pofe as a new Species, but only an accidental Variety 

 in the Capr<ea Kifyd, which I think has not any where 

 elfe been exposed in Icon. 



13. As to the Lithofperm. maj.Dod. which is re- 

 pent at the Root, you would foon be convinc'd, if 

 you compare the other Kinds with this, which was 

 taken from a dry'd Specimen out of Mr. Charlton's 

 Colie&ion, with the Title affix'd by Dr. Magnol^ and 

 which anfwers well enough to tfhalius's Name, it be- 

 ing very twiggy in its Branches towards the Top; 

 but whether trailing on the Ground, or not, I can't 

 determine, as never having feen it grow* perhaps 

 mine may be only a fingle Twig a top. 



14. That the two Aftragalus's, the Stella legumi- 

 nofa^ and my Vicia Sefamacea Apula Fab. Column, are 

 extremely differing by their Collation, nothing can 

 be more apparent 5 nor can your Argument from Dr., 

 Magnol make any thing againft it, fince his, and our 

 commonly received Vicia Sefamac. Apula^ is no other 

 than the Securidaca filiquh foliaceis of Monfieur Boc* 

 cori) which has a Variety with thofe Affe&ions you 

 fpeak of, viz. the Pods with Foot-Stalks almoft an 

 Inch long. We may perceive Dr. Morifon himfelf 

 labouring under the fame Miftake, when in his Hi- 

 ftory of Oxford he propofes in Icon, his Aftragalus 

 annuus reffus flore ochroleuco^ which is no other than 

 Boccon's Securidaca j for the Vicia Apula Column, and 

 that which is truly fo, (as every body muft own, both 

 from the Figure and Defcription of Columna in his 

 Ecpbraf. p. 1. p. 301, and 303.) he fets down under 

 the Title of Afiragal. annuus filiq. & fol. hirfutis. Tab, 

 p. Sefit z. and makes it the lame with F<znugr#co Syl- 



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