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venit. Pofterior autem paucis innotefcit, nec ab ullis 
mihi notis unquam ufurpata fuit. Tu vero autho- 
ritate Domini Edwardi Hulfii (viri fane clariflimi) 
nixus, in Appendice ad Hid. Generalem, hanc efle 
Plantam a Grayo tantopere laudatam afferis 5 fed in 
Synopfi StirpiumBritannicarum nihil de Herbx hujufce 
viribus fcribis, laudes autem, .quibus hanc ornabas, in 
Coronopum retuliffi. Qusero igitur abs te, num fen- 
tentiam tuam mutafti ? Et D. Huliium de hac planta 
deceptum fuifle nunc arbitraris? Ego fane dubius & 
incertus hasreo. Grayus ipfe nullum aliud nomen 
prxter Steliam Terras herbac, quam adeo magnificat, 
impofuit, neque (in ilia faltem Editione, quam mihi 
videre contigit) defcriptionem ullam, notamve cha^ 
radterifticam addidit, qua Planta hxc laudatiffima aliis 
innotefceret. Nefcio autem quomodo D. Hulftus tam 
certo fciret Grayum ad Lychnidem praedi&am refpe- 
xiffe, eamque nomine illo defignafie. An Lychnis haec 
tantis pollet viribus, ego quidem multum dubito ; quod 
autem tu mihi hunc eximas fcrupulum, (ut phrafi 
Pliniana utar) hoc impenfius cupio.] 
To this Inquiry that good communicative Gentle- 
man condefcended to return the following free and 
ingenuous Anfwer, in English (though part of his 
Letter was in the fame Language with mine). 
[As to your pertinent Queftion concerning the 
Plant called Star of the Earth , the Cafe hands thus 
King fames fen t to the Royal Society a Sample of 
a Plant dried, which was fent him for that which 
cured his Dogs when bitten with a Mad-Dog, and 
by the Name of the Star of the Earth . This Plant 
not being well dried and preferved, none of the 
Royal Society knew certainly what to make of 5 
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