42 CHAPTER 29. 
In N'' 313, Mr. Petiver communica-. 
ted to the Royal Society the manner of ma- 
king the Styrax Uqniday whkh, he fays, is 
from the bark of thcRofa mallas (the charac- 
ter of which is unknown) which grows on 
the ifland Cobrofs, in the Red Sea. If this 
be the origin of the true, or oriental kind, 
there is likewife a Styrax liquida, from the 
Liqzudambar tree of Virginia, What is ge- 
nerally met with now, is juftly fufpeded to 
be a mixed artificial compofition. 
In N'' 232, Mr. Petiver publifhed, un- 
der the title of Botanicum hortenje, an Ac- 
count of divers rare plants, obferved in feve- 
ral curious gardens about London y particu- 
larly in the Phyfic Garden at Chelfea. This 
v/as continued, in feven feparate trafts, to 
W 346. Vol. XXVII. XXVIIL XXIX. 
Mr. Petiver died at his houfe in AL 
derfgate Street ^ on the 20th of x\pril, 171 8, 
His body was carried to Cooke Hall^ where, 
a.greeably to the cuftom of the time, it lay 
in ftate. The pall was fupported by Sir 
Hans Sloane, Dr. Levit, phyfician to 
the Charter Houfcy and four other phy- 
sicians. He left five guineas to 'Di'.Brady^ 
for 
