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brokfhire: I met with two, which I fufpeft for new, 
viz. a Tripolium, and an Anthyllis leguminofa fupina, fore 
- coccineo. 
Amongft feveral others, I found one large Cryftal a- 
bove Phynnon Urhh about 7 Inches long, and as thick as 
my Wrift. In Monmonthjhire I met with large petrifyed 
Vertebra , and fome few form’d Stones in each County : 
But I employed the greateft part of my time in copy- 
ing Infer i prions, taking Catalogues of Welfh Manu- 
fcripts, &c. 
C hep flow mMonmouthfhire , May 13, 1697. 
S INCE my coming from Oxford , I fpent $ or 4 Days 
in the Coal-Pits of the Foreft of Dean 5 where I 
found (I think) all your Capillaries, befides fome other 
new Plants, three or four whereof are here figured 5 
together with two Species of Afiropodium gather’d on 
the Severn Shoar, the only Rarities of the kind, I fup- 
pofe, that have been difcover’d. I doubt not but (as 
you fav) the Coal Plants have been obferved by the 
Workmen long fince, tho’ they efcaped the Notice of 
Naturalifts, who till this laft Centnry contented them- 
felves with bare reading and fcribling Paper. I find it 
well known to all our Country Colliers by the Name of 
Carr eg Pedynog , i. e. the Ferny Stone $ and one Mr JT/ 7 - 
liamf. Archdeacon of Cardigan, who is a Perfon very 
curious and ingenious, told me he had obferved much 
finer Patterns 25 Years fince in the Coal Pits of Glamor - 
gan/hire than feme that I file wed him. The whole 
Brazen tlncKirkman mentioned was a noble Curiofity ; 
We faw none fuch in the Foreft 5 tho’ we found them 
much larger than thole you fent. The Stalks of Fern 
iind Bartstongue I think we often met with, but cannot 
fay, vve faw any Roots. Indeed I know not well whe- 
ther 
