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IV. jin ExtraB of a Letter from the late Mr. Edw. 
Lhwyd to Dr. Tancred Robinibn $ gibing an. 
Account of fome uncommon Plants growing about 
Penfans and St. Ives tn Cornwall; 
Have met with no Birds or Fi(h, (ince our coming- 
hither, that I fufpeft for undefcribed : Only two ot 
three StelUy and fome other Exanguia marina, have oc- 
cur’d, which I have not feen before, on our Britife 
Coafts. . 
We have alfo met with the Capillus Veneris verm ii& 
abundance on the Sea Clifts about St. Ives • 2. Dr. She** 
yard’s Scrophularia Scorodoni<e folio. 3. Blattaria lute a y 
an Utica minor, Bark ? But the Leaves of ours are not? 
jagged : Alfo all the Plants mentioned by Mr Ray to 
grow here $ excepting the Gnaphalium marinum^ which 
(hould grow by this. Town ^ and two or three more^ 
which being at fome diftance, we have not looked 
We have alfo found fome Fuci 9 which perhaps- may- 
be new And I am told the Filhermen fometimes take, 
tip the Corallina marina veticulaU.by , their Hooks^ but IL 
have not yet feen one of them*. ^ 
Benfans, Sept. 22. 1700. 
SIR, 
for. 
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