[ 8° 3 ] 
charged by urine. The mother faid (he had never 
flept, but the filler and daugher declare they llept 
as ufual. The mother and lifter fay, that on the 
day they were buried their monthly evacuations were 
upon them, but they had not the leaft ftgn of them 
afterwards. 
The above account was attefted by the faid wo- 
men before the Intendant on the 1 6th of May, 
1 755 - 
CXII. An Account of fome of the more 
rare Englifh Plants obferved in Leicefter- 
fhire.. 
To the Earl of Macclesfield , Prelident of the Royal 
Society, 
My Lord,. 
Read Nov. 25, ■y Take the liberty, by your lordfhip’s 
1756. meanSj 0 f communicating to the Royal 
Society an account of fome of the more rare plants,, 
growing fpontaneoully in Leicefterfhire, tranfmitted 
to me by its author, Mr. Richard Pultney, an apothe- 
cary at Leicefter, Mr. Pultney is a perfon of real 
merit, well flclled not only in whatever relates to 
his profeftion, but alfo in various parts of Natural 
Hiftory. His botanical knowlege is very extenlive,, 
and he is very zealous in promoting it. He has already 
laid before the public, though his modefty would not 
permit: 
