A Catalogue of the Fifty Plants from Chelsea-Garden, Presented to the Royal Society, by the Company of Apothecaries, for the Year 1726; Pursuant to the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Med. Reg. Praes Col. R. Med. & Soc. Reg. By Mr. Isaac Rand, Apothecary, F.R.S.

I. A Catalogue of the Fifty Plants from Chelsea-Garden, presented to the Royal Society, by the Company of Apothecaries, for the Year 1726; pursuant to the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Med. Reg. Praef Col. R. Med. &c Soc. Reg. By Mr. Isaac Rand, Apothecary, F.R.S. 201 A Butilon, Dod. 656. 202 — Americanum, fructu subrotundo pendulo, è capsulis velicariis criripis conflato. 203 — Alkekengi Barbadoense, patulum parvo flore; fructu amplo mucrone producìori. 204 — Indicum majus, T. Inst. 151. 205 — Curassavicum; foliis Origani incanis; flore vietè sulphureo, fundo purpureo, Boerb. Ind. Alt. II p. 66. 206 — Verticillato simile; foliis angustioribus, utrinque acuminatis. 207 — Virginianum perenne majus; flore luteo amplò; fructu minimo. 208 — Ammi perenne Moris, Umb. 22. 209 Apocynum scandens, Africanum; Convolvuli minoris folio & caule hirsutis, Pluk. Phyt. Tab. 137. f. 4. 210 Bidens Americana Apii folio, T. 462. 211 — Americana nodiflora foliis latis acuminatis. Chrysanthemum Conyzoides, nodiflorum; femine rostrato bidenta, Sloan. Hist. Vol. I. p. 62. Tab. 154. f. 4. 212 — Caroliniana; florum radiis latissimis, insigniter dentatis; femine alato, per maturitatem convoluto. 213 — Buglossum Lusitanicum, bullatis foliis Moris, Hort. Blæf. 214 — Caltha Africana, flore intus albo foris Violacco, T. Inst. 499. 215 Cardamine impatiens, vulgo Sium minus impatiens, Gerard. 216 — Impatiens altera hirsutior, Raii Synopsis. 217 — Clematis peregrina foliis perincisis, C.B. 300. 218 — Corchorus sive Melochia, J.B. 2. 982. 219 — Coma aurea Africana fruticans, foliis Crithmi marini, H. Ams. 2. 99. 220 — Kali spinosum, foliis longioribus & angustioribus, T. Inst. 247. 221 — Foliis crassioribus & brevioribus, Ibid. 222 — Lactuca Canadensis, altissima, latifoliflora; flore leucophæo, T. Inst. 474. 223 Lathyrus sylvestris major flore minore; foliis longius mucronatis. 224 Lavandula folio disjecto, C.B. 216. 225 — Lychnis Hispanica major latifolia flore albo. 226 — Maritima repens, C.B. 205. 227 — Anglica, amplioribus foliis. 228 — Orientalis Bupleuri folio, T.Corr. 24. 229 — Calyce pyramidato, striato, longissimo; T.Corr. ib. 230 — Foliis carnosis; caule ramosissimo; flosculis minutis onusto. Lychnis Orient. Saponariae folio & facie flore parvo & multiplice. 231 — Frutetescens, Myrtifolia, Been albo similis, C.B. 205. 232 — Segetum Meridionalium annua, hirsuta; floribus rubris, uno versu dispositis, Boerh. Ind. Alt. 214. 233 — Sylvestris viscosa rubra angustifolia, C. B. 205. 234 — — Viscosa, rubra altera, Ib. 235 — Umbellifera, montana, Helvetica, Zanon. 128. 236 — Lysimachia bifolia flore globose, C. B. 245. 237 — Malvinda Ulmifolia, semine rostrato. Malva annua fruticosa Fernambucana flore luteo, Zanon 132. 238 — — Semine bidente. Malva Ulmifolia, semine cum gemino rostro, T. Inst. 96. 239 — Pimpinellae majoris folio semine bidente. 240 — — — Folio augustiori semine bidente. 241 — Malvinda, profundius serrato folio, semine tridente. 242 — Abutili folio, flore luteo spicato. Althaea Indica Abutili subrotundo folio, flore luteo spicato, Pluk. Phyt. Tab. 74. f. 6. 243 — — — flore luteo spicato minor. 244 — Moldavica Betonicae folio flore caeruleo, T. Inst. 184. 245 — Orientalis, Betonicae folio flore magno Viola-ceo, T. Cor. 14. 246 — Myrrhis tuberosa, nodosa, coniophyllum Morris, Umb. 67. 247 — Myrrhis folio Podagrariae Rivin. 248 — Niruri Barbadiensis, folio ovali subtus glauco, pediculis florum brevissimis. II. Some farther Remarks on P. Souciet's Dissertations against Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology, by Edmund Halley, L.L.D. Astron. Reg. In a Letter to Dr. Jurin, Coll. Med. & S.R.Soc. SIR, WHEN I gave you my Paper of Remarks on P. Souciet's Dissertations against Sir Isaac Newton's Chronology, I was oblig'd to take what he was pleas'd to give us out of Hipparchus's Comment on Aratus, not having then that Author himself by me. Since then, by the favour of a very good Friend, having gotten the Florence Edition of Hipparchus, Anno 1567, I find an Argument very much ad Hominem, which the R. P. must confess will bring the Argonautick Expedition full as low as Sir Isaac Newton makes it. P. Souciet in his fifth Dissertation, Page 119, 120, finds out a Star of the first Magnitude, close adjoining to that we now call the first Star of Aries, as it is in the Catalogue of Ptolemy, where it is said to be in the Horn of Aries, and not in the Ear. This Star the R.P. supposes long since to have disappeared; but that being of old very considerable, it was from this first Star of Aries, the Zodiack began, tho'