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cumcifed below all its branches, was, at the time, 
the largeft of half a dozen of the fame kind, which 
were planted at the fame time, and is not fo at pre- 
fent. I am forry I cannot be fo circumftantial in 
this particular, as I endeavoured to be in others; 
and am, 
Dear Sir, 
Your affectionate 
Poland-Street, 
Jan. 19, 17.61. 
humble fervant, 
Keane Fitzgerald. 
XIII. An Account of the Urtica Marina : In 
a Letter' to Mr. Peter Collinfon, F. R. S. 
from Jofeph Gaertner, M. D. 
Read Feb. 1 2, 
1761. 
Dear Sir, London, Feb. 12, 1761. 
AVING lately vifited the fouthern 
coafts of Cornwall, I met with fe- 
deral new and undeferibed forts of the urtica? marina?, 
called by Mr. Hughs the animal flowers. I therefore 
take the liberty of fending you the inclofed drawings, 
[Vide Lab. I.] together with a fhort defeription of 
them, which, I flatter myfelf, will not be difagree- 
able to you, as thefe animals, in regard of the various 
and furprizing fhape of their bodies, and on account 
of the few imperfeCt deferiptions, that have hitherto 
been given even of the common forts of them, may 
not be unworthy the notice of the curious. The 
-name of urtica, as the celebrated Mr. de Reaumur, 
L z in 
