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Ci^ty by Mr. Buckley, Surgeon at Fort 
St. George. N° ^46 — 25Q. Vol, xx. and 
xxi. 
An Account of the Tartarian Lamb, 
Agnus Scythicus^ or Barometz^ heretofore 
impofed on the credulous as a kind of Zoo- 
phyte, or vegetating AnimaL On exami- 
nation, it proves to be the lower part of the 
Jiipes, or root, protruding above ground, «f 
a large fpecies of Fern, judged by fome to 
be the Polypodium Aureum, fafhioned into 
the rude fhape of the animal. It is natu- 
rally cloathed with a lanugo^ or down, of 
^ yellowifh chefnut colour, called Poco-^ 
fempie in China and the Eaft, celebrated as 
aflringent, both internally and externally 
ufed ; with a figure of the pretended ani- 
mal. N* ^47. Vol. XX. p. 461. 
An Account of the Nux Pepita, or St^ 
Ignatius' Bean ( Ignatia Amara ISm. Sup« 
^49); a fimple in common ufe in the Phi^ 
lippine Iflands, as a tonic medicine. N"" 249* 
Vol. xxi. p. 44. 
An Account of fome Seeds, ufed on the 
^oaft Malabar and Coromandely for ciarify- 
? ^ ing 
