A Catalogue of the Fifty Plants from Chelsea-Garden, Presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries, for the Year 1742. Pursuant to the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Med. Reg. & Soc. Reg. Nuper Praes. By Joseph Miller, Apothecary, Hort. Chels. Praes. ac Praelector Botan

XII. A Catalogue of the Fifty Plants from Chelsea-Garden, presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries, for the Year 1742. pursuant to the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Med. Reg. & Soc. Reg. nuper Praef. By Joseph Miller, Apothecary, Hort. Chelf. Praef. ac Praelector Botan. 1001 A Brotanum Lini folio acriori & odorato. Tourn. Draco herba. Park. 1002 Abutilon Americanum Ribesii folio, flore carneo, fructu pentagono aspero. Houft. 1003 Aconitum caeruleum, sive Napellus. C. B. 183. 1004 Aconitum Lycoctonum luteum. Ibid. 1005 Ammi majus Off. C. B. 159. 1006 Anchusa purpurea. Park. 1007 Anonis non spinosa viscosa hirsuta, odore Theriacæ. Hort. Cathol. 1008 Arum Africanum, flore albo. Parad. Bat. 1009 Balsamita major. Dod. Costus Hortorum. Off. 1010 Bidens folio tripartito, diviso. Tourn. 1011 Buglossum latifolium sempervirens. C. B. 1012 Buglossum orientale, flore luteo. Tourn. 1013 Campanula hortensis, folio & flore oblongo. C. B. 94. 1014 Campanula Persicæ folio, flore albo pleno. Lob. 1015 Carduus acaulis minor, flore purpureo. C. B. 380. 1016 Carduus aculeatus, Ptarmicæ Austriacæ folio Triumfetti. 1017 Cnicus, Atractylis lutea, dictus, Off. Hort. Lugd. Bat. 1018 Carum Off. 1019 Doronicum Americanum. Park. 1020 Elichrysum, seu Stœchas citrina angustifolia. C. B. 1021 Elichrysum latifolium Americanum. Tourn. 1022 Erysimum polyceratium vel corniculatum. C. B. 101. 1023 Fabago Belgarum, sive Peplus Parisiensium, Lugdunens. 1324 Filix mas aculeata, pinnulis auriculatis angustioribus. Raii. 1025 Genista juncea. J. B. Hispanica. Ger. 1026 Gentiana Alpina, magno flore. J. B. 1027 Glaucium flore luteo. Tourn. 1028 Gramen Daëtylon esculentum. C. B. Manna vulg. H. L. Bat. 1029 Helleborus niger fetidus. C. B. 186. 1030 Hermannia, folio Lavendulæ obtuso, flore parvo aureo. Boerhaave. 1031 Hieracium montanum tomentosum. Morison Hort. Reg. Blæs. 1032 Horminum pratense, flore minimo. Schol. Botan. 1033 Horminum sylvestre, Lavendulæ flore. C. B. 239. 1034 Ilex, oblongo serrato folio. Ib. 234. 1035 Ketmia Syrorum, flore albo. Boerhaave. 1036 Lentiscus vulgaris. C. B. 399. 1037 Lingua cervina multifida. Ibid. 354. 1031 Lotus hæmorrhoidalis major. Park. 1039 Lupinus sativus, flore albo. C. B. 347. 1040 Lupinus sylvestris, flore luteo. Ibid. 1041 Lupinus peregrinus major villosus caeruleus. Ibid. 1042 Lychnis Chalcedonica, flore miniato. Park. 1043 Melilotus major candida Tragi. 1044 Melilotus odorata violacea. Hist. Oxon. Lotus urbana. Off. 1045 Moldavica Americana trifolia, odore gravi. Tourn. 1046 Origanum. Off. Origanum Anglicum. Ger. 1047 Ochrus folio integro capreolas emittente. C. B. 243. 1048 Orobus vulgaris herbariorum. Ger. Park. 1049 Panicum Indicum spica longissima. C. B. 343. 1050 Punica malus. Off. Malus Granata. Ger. XIII. A Letter from the Rev. Mr. Roger Pickering, F.R.S. to the President; concerning the Manuring of Land with fossil Shells. SIR, Charles-Square, Hoxton, Nov. 22. 1744. I take the liberty of offering, by your hands, to the Society, a specimen of fossil Shells, lately sent me, which are pretty perfect; and, on account of the place from whence they were taken, remarkable. At Woodbridge in Suffolk, in a Farmer's Ground, there are some pits, in depth equal to the usual height of houses, con-