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time to Publifli another Book of 2 new Plants lately 
gathered by himfelf in Sicily ^ graved on ixo Copper 
Plates ; of which the Title will be, Mufeo di Fijtca e 
di Efperienze^ arrichito di Figure di Piante nove^ Ojerva* 
zione^ Note Medicinally e Ragionamenti.fecondo i Frincipii 
di Meotericiy difpofito in Decade VIIL 
In the fame Letter he tells us, that the Lychnis Pfeu- 
dmelanthio fmilis Affricanus glaber an^ufti-foliusy Fault 
Hermans^ is the fame with the Lychnis Calyce duriori 
Bocconi. Ic. © defer. Rar, Plant, The Stachis Betonicce 
folio Julincano P. Herman, k the Horminum Spicatum La- 
vendtila odore Bocconi : And that thefe with feveral other 
rare Plants deicribed by late Authors, are fou^nd fre* 
quently in Sicily, 
He likewife Propofes a new Scorbutic Plant , which 
from the Analogy of ftveral external Notes and Cha- 
rafters he thinks may prove a very good Succedaneum^ 
where thtCochlearia folio fuhrotundo Cafp.Bauhini is lets 
plentiful, viz, Thlajfi Lencoii folio latifoUum platicarpos 
Siculunt, femper virens & femper florens. This Plant ha- 
ving a very biting tafte, a thick leaf, and fmell like the 
Cochlearia^ confirms his Conjedure, befides the Gene- 
rical Note of the Seed, the moft certain Indication, and 
fare Guide to difcover the Qualities of unkoov/n Plants, 
according to Falius Columna^ and Andreas Cxefalpinui. 
This he fubmits to the Tryal of Phy ficians ; obftrving 
that they choofe out amongft the feveral Species of the 
Anagallis aquatica that called Anag. aqu. maj, folio fuh* 
rotmdo^ C.B. Pin. poffibly becaule of the Saline, Ni- 
trous, and Acid Volatile Particles found in its Leaves , 
which abound alfo in Scurvy-graft, and this Sicilian 
Thlafpi, 
F 
I L Leziom 
