Dr. Prefton to Mr. Ray. 3 1 5 



gree to Turneforfs Chara£fcer of the Blita. He has 

 excluded it from the Kali Species, but where he has 

 reduc'd it I cannot find. 



Lichen vulg. I could never obferve it to have 

 any Flower, but there arifes from the middle of the 

 Leaves a long, {lender, and white Pedicule, aliquan- 

 do ad digiti unius longitudinem affurgens. It is hollow 

 and pellucid 5 on the top of which there is a round 

 black Head, or Capfule, fitted with a farinaceous and 

 greeqifh Subftance, quod reverb locum feminis fupplet 5 

 or the Seed it felf,as obferv'd by Ttumefort with the help 

 . of a Microfcope, and is fubrotunda. This Capfule being 

 fo very (lender, foon opens, or breaks, by the Heat 

 of the Sun , and then it appears of the Figure as in 

 ^turneforfs Chara£fcer, but is constantly round, (ante 

 rupturam) fo that it would appear T urnefort has not 

 obferved them in all Seafons : For early in the Spring 

 it is eafy to obferve them as above defcribed, but they 

 are not able to endure Heat, and fo quickly vanifh. 



Alfine rotundifoL feu Portulaca aq. minima Serpylli- 

 fpl This Plant was paft the Flower : The Piftill 

 of it becomes a round Capfule opening into two Parts, 

 horizontaliter, £5? pyxidis in modum, in whofe Cavity 

 are contained many round and fmall Seeds. Calix 

 tetr0petajus. It rifeth about an Inch high 5 the Leaves 

 referable thofe of Serpyllum vulg. and the Capfules 

 thofe of Anagallis ft. PkcBniceo, but differs in this from 

 Anagallis, quod capful^ in alis foliorum pofita funt*>& 

 pediculis carent. 



Afphodelus' palujlris Scoticus minimus, plants genus 

 flore hexapetalo rofaceo, calice carente, cujus pi ft HI um 

 mutatur in capfulam oblongam acuminatam & in 3 lo- 

 culamenta divifam, in quibus fingulis femina plurima 

 continentur ariftata. You have placed it inter \bulbofis 

 affines, without any particular Note of Flower or 

 Seed-VefTel. Where *£urnefort has clafled it I cannot^ 

 find, for his Bopk is deficient in a good Index, 



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