to be found only on May day Eve, and good for God 
knows what : They look like the Germinations of fbme 
of your Salts, but in the Fire {hewed no figns thereof 
by crackling ; they are Ele&rical and Angular, and be- 
ing pounded, the Powder is white. I have (everal Stones 
and Minerals by me, which if 1 knew were acceptable 
to you, fhould be fent forwards but I would gladly 
firft be affured you are not difpleafed with thefe Trifles 
from 
Dublin, oa. i 3 . Tours, &c. 
I 6 8 8, 
IV. An Account of two Plants lately brought 
from the Cape of Good-hope, communicated 
by Dr. Sloane, R.S.S. 
ALderman Charles Chamlerlain having favoured the 
Royal Society to prefent them ( among other 
natural Rarities) with two Branches of Trees and their 
Fruits, brought from the Cape of Good-hope by Mr. God- 
dard^MiQh being very curious,and are not yet any where 
perfectly defcribed, it was thought fit to publifti their 
Figures and Defcriptions ,• and that the rather, becaufe 
the firft of them has been brought hither for its Beauty 
in Pots, as well as raiftd in England from the Seed 
brought from the Cape of Good- hope, where it is called 
the Silver Pine. 
Conifer a falicis facie , folio & fruffu, tomento fericeo, 
candicante, olduffis, femine pennato. 
