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Letter with the Specimen enclofed, which Teems to 
me to be the Sefamoides Salamanticum Magnum of 
ClufiuSj ot Lychnis vifc. &c. of Bauhine, which I 
have obferved to grow plentifully upon New- 
market Heath , &c. I wonder it fhould have fuch 
a Virtue as you mention, but it Teems it is well at- 
tefted. Dr. Hulfe writes to me, he finds it in Grey's 
Farrier.] This Teems pretty evidently to refer to 
the fame Plant mentioned by Aubry , and this Turely 
was the Plant that not being well dried and preferved, 
the Society could not tell what to make of, and 
which Mr. Ray found to be the Sefamoides , which 
he then thought was the Plant that Grey called the 
Star of the Earth ; but upon further Confideration, he 
was firmly perfuaded, that the Coronopus, and not the 
Sefamoides , was the Plant intended by de Grey (for fohis 
Name ought to be written): And indeed, to me there 
Teems to be the greateft Probability, if not abfolute Cer- 
tainty, of this latter Opinion $ for the Sefamoides was a 
Plant To little known in Greys Time, that the Botanifts 
who were cotemporary with him, took it for a Plant 
that was wholly aStranger in England , as may be Teen 
in Johnfon upon Gerard and in Barkinfon and the 
Manner of giving it, as directed by Grey , viz . firft 
three, then five, and then feven Plants, Roots and all, 
fpeaks it to be a fmall Herb, fuch as is the Coronopus y 
and not fuch a large one, with a big, fticky or woody 
Root, as the Sefamoides . This I am very fure of, that in 
Norfolk , my native County, (and which, if I miftake 
not, was Grefs alfo) the Coronopus is called the Star 
of the Earth (and among other Names given it by 
\ T)odonteuSy this of Stellaria , and Stella Terr a , is one, 
p- 95. of the English Tranflation 5 and he deferibes 
it as lying fpread upon the Ground like a Star 5 and 
Gerard 
