JVaffon. 307 
SONNE l's fyftem, in viewing the Polypes 
of the Corallines. 
In I753> was printed, *^ An Account of 
the Second Volume of the Flora Sibiricu 
of Gmelin exhibiting fome extrafts 
relating to the cure of the venereal difeafe, 
in Siberiuy by the decodtion of a fpecies 
of Cirjium^ and an Iris : and on the diftil- 
lation of a fpirituous liquor from the (j') 
SpGndylium^ or Cow-Parfnep. 
In the farne volume of the TrdnfaBions (r), 
fome Obfervations, tending to determine 
what was the Byjfus of the antlents ; occa- 
fioned by a fubftance which was fent over 
byProfeffor Bose> of Wittemberg, It prov- 
ed to be no other thin the common Byj]us 
'velutina^ in a bleached ftate^ whereas the 
Byjfus of the antients was judged by Mn 
Watson to be^ moft probably, a Cotton 5 
which is confirmed in a very elaborate and 
critical DilTertation, written by Dr. Rein-^ 
^^/^ FoRSTER, and publifhed in 1776. 
Remarks, additional to thofe of Dr, 
Martyn, on the Sex of the Hoily-Tree-, 
{q) PhiL Tranf, Vol* xlviii. p, 141 — 152, 
(r) Ib. 358, 
X a which 
