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bunch reflects downwords from amoung the leaves in this as if willing
to make a more conspicuous figuire. is it so in the unedo? what passes
here for the filago or gnaphalium ansrs the characters of the Chrisocoma
perfectiy, but it is full of cotton & white. when 1 have an opportunity
of writing you by some ship I will send you what specimens I may
be doubtfull in & hope for your friendly assistance. I have not yet
seen what they call the malva arborea, have you examined it?
Smith in his country of waterford mentions a marine sensitive plant,
it is surely a Zoophite. in Mountserat we have one frequent like the
animal flower of Hughs. there are small slender flexile tubes raising
from the rocks in the water, at the end of wh you see a penceil of
rays of different colours in the form of a funneil in various motion, if
you put the hand or stick near them they retract & if you take the
stem, you find it empty. by braking of fragments of the rockes 1 found
it was an animale like a common earth worm all to the end that is
divided into a number of tentaculae. sharp pointed of the other end &
flatish. we have large ones. there without such tubes that hold to the
rocks by suction & perfectiy resemble a granadilla blossom by the
uper end.
1 have observed both in Mountserat & in Jamaica a kind of earth
or clay that petrifys when it falls into the salt water, I do suppose from
an admixture of Iron ore, but indeed I have not examined altho ...1
think now that it is well worth examination, as such . . .* would make
the noblest cement for all buildings in the ...1 as moles, docks, locks,
light houses &c.
I have just now finished a Dissertation on the yellow fever of
America . . .’ or the Siam fever; one on the nervous fevers of America,
another on worm fevers. another on the veneral malady. & 2 short
tracts on the yaws & inoculation alltogether. will make but a small
volum 8™ but I do not yet know when they will be printed. My Dr
friend I long to hear from you believe me the expectation of a
corre-spondance with you is what gave me the greatest satisfaction on my
coming here. do you use the seneka root with you? in Mountserat we
have the Ekmi tree but I was not able to get into the woods, I wish
1 could, 1 offered a pistole for a little sprig with the flowers & one or
two of the fruit, but 1 could not get one to bringe it. it bears a berry
with one, or more nuclei oblong, oval & a little compressed a little of
the Germ. frish cures in veterate coughs the best of anything I ever
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