314 Dr. Prefton to Mr. Ray. 



fpecie, fed femina profert minuta rotunda rubefcentia ad 

 fmgulos nodos foliolis adharentia ut-in priori fpecie, odor 

 gravifjimum. I know not if thefe two laft Species 

 be defcribed. . / 



Kali fpinofum cochleatum, plants genus fiore ftamineo 

 vel apetalo, cujus calix e 5* foliis acuminatis componitur^ 

 qua fimul junftd capfulam conjiituunt quafi echinatam^ 

 in qua uiucura continetur fimen fubrotundum fpira in 

 modum convolutum vel cochlea ad in far. Turnef . Infti 

 R. H. pag. 247. places this Plant inter herbas fore ro~ 

 faceo cujus pif ilium aut calix abit in fruSlum unicap- 

 fularem : After the J unci Species, and next the 

 lephii Species, in the particular Note he fays, ghtod 

 pflillum deinde abit in fruftum fere globofum membra* 

 naceum fingulari femine foetum^cochlea ad inftar intorto £5? 

 plerumq-y pet a lis forum cbvolutum. On very ftri£t 

 Obfervation in all the Seafons of it, I could never dif- 

 cover any Petala, but only Stamina $ fo that I fee no 

 Reafon for your giving it a rofaceous Flower, except , 

 one would, take thofe Echinac Leaves of the Calix for 

 the Petala of the Flower, which I think fcarce any 

 Botanift would do y and if it were fo, it would be 

 Hill a Stamineous Flower, even according to his own 

 Senfe of Stamineous, if the Petala become the In- 

 volucra Seminis, as he fays they do for the moft part 

 in this. In his Elem. Bot. he has given it alio a ro- 

 ficcous Flower, but wanting a Calix, whofe Piftill 

 becomes a round and membranaceous Fruit, in which 

 one Seed is contained Spira in modum convolutum 3 but 

 neither of thefe Characters agrees to* this Plant : F01 

 I found it conltantly as above defcribed. So that 

 Turnefort muft either be very far miJtaken, or the 

 Plant muil vary in different Places. 



Kali minus album femine fplendente C. B. P. has a 

 Stamineous Flower, whofe Calix confiils of five 

 Leaves, and together compofe a round Capfule, in 

 -which one round and fhining Seed is contained. You 

 liave placed it among ft the Slita^ but it does not a- 



gree 



