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IV. A Letter from the Reverend Mr, Edmond 
Barrel, Rector of Sutton in Kent, to Sir Hans 
Sloane, Baronet j Prejldent of the Royal So^ 
ciety and the College of Phyficians, concer- 
ning the Propagation of Miffelto. 
S I R. 
I T hath been my Purpofe, ever (ince the Death of our 
late worthy Friend Mr. Hilly to communicate to 
you, (if you would pleafe to accept of it) an Account 
of the Growth of Mijfelto from the Seed: and I have 
delayed it from Year to Year, not only to be better 
affured in my Experiments, and to find whether the 
World had not already, or would not be in the mean 
Time, better informed of this, by fome other Hand: 
But i was alfo in hopes to have been fo fuccefsful fome 
Year or other, as to have been able, to fend you and 
the Royal Society, fome Specimens of the feedling 
Plants, both of the fir ft and fecond Years growth 
together. I am forty that I cannot: do this now, and 
for that reafon Ihould have delayed this Account, till a- 
nother Year. But your kind Acceptance of fo finall a 
Curiofity as I fent lately, obligeth me to a prefent 
Compliance with your Requeft. 
The Berries of Mijfelto have within their vifeid 
Pulp a Kernel covered with a thin whitifii Skin ; the 
inward Subftance whereof is deeply green, and har- 
der than the Subftance of a Piflachto-'^\xCs Kernel. 
It is flattilli, and ftiaped fometimes like a Heart thus 
