ADDITIONAL NOTE TO MYRISTICA. 
If you begin to grate a nutmeg at the stalk end, it will prove hollow 
throughout; whereas if you begin to grate it at the other end, it will prove 
gound and solid to the last. The centre of a nutmeg consists of several fibres 
issuing from the stalk only, without adhering to other parts of the, fruit; that 
as the stalk is grated away, they fall out, and leave the nutmeg hollow.— 
Another caution worth knowing, is, that as thp oil of nutmegs is very valua¬ 
ble, it is often extracted from the nuts that are exposed to sale, which renders 
them of little value; to discover which, force a pin into them, and if good, 
however dry they appear, the oil will be seen oozing out round the pin. 
ERRATA. 
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for 
Rohrra 
read 
Rohtia . 
,, 
Hediotis 
Hedy otis* 
Bossmannia 
Hoffmannia* 
\57 
Scherardia 
Sherardia* 
SO 
'• • * 
Madeola 
Medeola . 
.... 91 
...r 94 
Cheleri 
dele 
Cherleria* 
Gethyllis. 
_ 110 
Taligabea 
read 
Taligalia* 
_ 111 
Rhianthus 
.... 
Rliinantkus. 
... .. 128 
Monneria 
.... 
Monnieria* 
.. 141 ' 
' * . 
Go tula 
.... 
Co tula* 
,... 162 
.. 
Flevilleq, 
.... 
Fevillca* 
N. B. In the Table of Classes and Orders, at page 38, the 7 th order to P«- 
lyandria should be Decagynia , and an 8th order to be added called Polygy- 
niaj it will then agree with the class Polyandria. 
