i^t The ^hQatural Hi/lory 
the PietraJi figure Je bofchio^ Ferrante Imperato'^^ yet fit me well 
enough with a tranfition to the Chapter of Vegetables^ which im- 
mediatly follows. 
182. Only I muft beg leave firft: to advertife the Reader^ that 
what I have afcribed to Dr, Merret concerning the Toad-flone^ 
fe6l.i^(>, 1 have found fince the Printing of thatdieet, feeming- 
ly alfo given to the Learned Sir George £w/,by the no lefs Ltztn- 
ed Sit ThomoiBrovpn^ in the laft Edition of his Pfeudodoxia Epi- 
demica \ to whether more rightly, let them contend. And that 
fince the Printing the beginning of this Chapter^ I received from 
the Right worfliipful Sir Fbilip Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt^ two 
kinds of Selenites, though of the fame texture, yet much diffe- 
rently formed from any there mention'd ; both of them being 
JJodeca'edrums^ hwithc Hedr<^ too as much different from one an- 
other, as from any of the former; The lirft fort of them being 
made up oft wo i?y^o;?zZ'oi^/e^z/fides,fouroblong,2nd as many i\\ott^ 
pentagons \ and two fmall Trapeziums^ one half whereof are 
reprefented 7ab, 8. Pig, 13. And the fecond, of two oblong 
Hexagons^ four oblong Trapeziums ^ four oblong parallelograms^ 
and two large pentagons, one half whereof are alfo reprefcnt-^ 
ed Fig, r4. In both which it is to be underftood, that the Hedr^t 
at the ends of each flone, areoppofed by two others like them, 
not according to the breadth, but length of the /lone. The two 
pentagons at the top of the Jlone-, Fig, 13. being oppofed by two 
others like them, behind the fmall 7rapeziumzt the bottom of it ; 
and the fmall /rj/'e^;///;?: at the bottom, by another like it behind 
the two short pentagons the top ; andfo the oblong parallelo' 
grams^ and large pentagons at the ends of the y?owe, Fig. 1 4. 
1 DeW Hifi.Naturalelit.2^. ciip-2\- ^ Pjettdodox-Efidem. fit. i. cap.\i. 
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