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<{ aluta3 ex pelle caprina confers fimilior quam 
** ovum ovo, niii quod craffior, materia minus com- 
£ .‘ padia j intus praeterea paffim duriufcula & rotunda 
“ tubercula, in manus magis quam in oculos inter- 
“ currentia occultante. Initio guftatus vis ftatim 
“ quasdam attradtiva apparebat. Reperitur et in aliis 
“ arboribus.” Breynius further fays, that this vege- 
table has been recommended as a moft excellent re- 
medy to flop the bleeding at the nofe. 
Mr. Ray, in his Synopjts Jiirpium Britannicarum , 
upon the authority of the late Dr. William Sherard, 
fays, that this Fungus coriaceus quercinus heematodes 
is found upon putrid oaks in Ireland, where it is 
called oak-leather ; and that the country people there 
colled! and preferve it to drefs ulcers with. Dr. 
Sherard makes no doubt but that it may be found 
in England j and Mr. Ray had even fome fent him 
from the late Dr. Eales in Hertfordfhire. Dr. 
Richardfon, in Yorkshire, found it growing upon the 
afh ; and Dr. Dillenius further obferves, that in Vir- 
ginia it is ufed as leather, to fpread plaiflers upon ; 
and that, befides its being a foft fubftance, fitting 
eafy upon the afflidted part, it has a healing pro- 
perty. 
Thus much I thought proper to lay before the 
Royal Society, in order that thofe members of it, 
who correfpond with the French furgeons, may 
make fome further inquiry into the nature, as well 
as the preparation, if any, of this ufeful vegetable. 
William Watfon. 
XCIX. 
