3 y 8 Mr. Courthope to Mr. Willughby . 



top of the Liquor : Man efpecially was of a quick 

 Growth, which fent forth a long Shoot above the 

 Liquor, which was much bigger at the the top than 

 the bottom, that the Weight of it brake it off. The 

 Reafon it di$ not fucceed with us in fo fhor^ a time, 

 was only beeaufe the Metals were not put into the 

 Liquor as foon as they \vere evap6rated. This Morn- 

 ing he was at my Chamber, and gave me a Tafie of 

 a finffure of Antimony, which had no Acrimony at 

 all, yet deep and ftrong, which he prizes much : He 

 only told me it was prepared of the Glafs of Antim* 

 but how I know not yet. 



Tr'tn. Coll. Camb. March 17. 165:9. 



Mr. Ray to Mr. Willifel. 

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ON Saturday Night laft, the 7 th Inftnnt, Mi% 

 Skippon and my /^//arrived at Cambridge from a 

 long Northern Expedition 3 wherein for the mod part 

 we followed your Footfleps, proceeding juft fo far 

 as Sterling, and returning by Glafguw. 1 gave you 

 in a former Letter an account of our Defign and In- 

 tention, which whether you received or not I know 

 not. In all this Journey I met with but fourPlants which 

 I had not formerly obferved, and in Scotland not one. 

 Thofe are Pneumonanthe , which hath a beautiful 

 blew Flower, and is perpetual : It grows plentifully in 

 many heathy and moift Grounds in Lincolnfmre , and 

 the Eafiern fide of Torkjhire, and Flowers about the 

 latter end of Augufi. Sedi Alpini parva Species^ which 

 I have not yet fearched out. It hath a yellow Flow- 

 er, and flowers about the beginning o(Auguft. This 

 I found only in one fmall fpot of Ground , about Shap 

 in WcflmorUfti. Chryfanthemum majus folio valdh l@- 



ciniato, 



