{ "id": "24631c4bf5885ebd1fc7ac2dbac16343e2ebce0f", "text": "to account satisfactorily for the whole appearance; which I should have looked upon as solved, could such an one have been discerned in a right situation. But here I beg to refer myself to the judgment of this Society: only shall observe, the two gaps we saw were directly interpos'd between the sun and their respective streaks.\n\nJ. Short.\n\nXXIV. A Catalogue of the Fifty Plants from Chelsea-Garden, presented to the Royal Society, by the worshipful Company of Apothecaries for the Year 1750, pursuant to the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet, Med. Reg. & Soc. Reg. nuper Praes, by John Wilmer, M.D. clariss. Societat. Pharmaceut. Lond. Soc. Hort. Chelf. Praefect. et Praelect. Botanic.\n\nRead May 2. 1401. A Butilon periplocæ acutiori folio, fructu stellato. Hort. Elt. 1402 Allium saxatile acori radice flore purpureo Bocc. Mus. 1403 Androsoface vulgaris latifolia annua Tourn. 123. 1404 Anemonospermos African. fol. & facie Taraxaci incanis Boeth. 1405 After Tripolii flore C. B. 1406 After cœruleus ferotinus frutescens Tradescant.\n1407 Balfanita fol. Agerati Valll.\nSantolina spinosa fol. Agerati Boerh.\n\n1408 Carduus albis maculis notatus exotico flore albo\nC. B. 381.\n\n1409 Camara foliis subrotundis rugosis flore coeruleo\nHoust.\n\n1410 Carduus Creticus Rapi folio Inst. R. H.\n\n1411 Cirsium tuberosum Lactucae capitulis spicatis\nHort. Elt.\n\n1412 Cnicus exiguus capite cancellato semine tomentoso T. Inst.\n\n1413 Cnicus orientalis Atractylis lutea dictus altifimus T. Cor. 33.\n\n1414 Cnicus orientalis Atractylidis folio flore Leucophæo T. Cor.\n\n1415 Collinsonia Americana Urticae foliis floribus ex albo purpur. Dillen.\n\n1416 Corindum ampliore folio fructu majore T. 431.\n\n1417 Corindum folio et fructu minori Tourn.\n\n1418 Elichrysum African. fætidissim. calyce argenteo Tourn.\n\n1419 Eryngium montanum Amethystinum capitulo majore pallescente T. 327.\n\n1420 Ferula fol. glauco semine lato oblongo quibufdam Thapsia ferulacea C. B.\n\n1421 Hesperis Leucoii folio non ferrato filiua quadrangula J. R. H. 223.\n\n1422 Hieracium villosum Sonchus lanatus Dalechampio dictum R.H. 231.\n\n1423 Hieracium Alpinum Scorzonerae folio Inst. R. H. 1472.\n\n1424 Horminum Napi folio Mor. Hort. Reg. Bleff.\n\n1425 Jacea spinosa alato caule capite lanuginoso C. B. P.\n1426 Jacea angustifolia minor Virginiana tuberosa radice Banister\n1427 Jacea fol. candicantibus laciniatis caliculis non splendentibus\n1428 Lychnidea Mariana elatior Alfinesaquatic. foliis floribus in longam spicam dense stipatis Pluk.\n1429 Lychnis oriental. annua supina Antirrhini fol. fl. min. purp.\n1430 Lychnis viscosa flore muscofo Ocimastr facie C. B. P.\n1431 Marrubium album candidissimum et villosum T. Cor.\n1432 Martynia foliis ferratis Lin. Hort. Cliff.\n1433 Medica marina major spinosa Park. Theat.\n1434 Medicago Vulnerariae facie Hispanica Inst. R. H. 412.\n1435 Mimosa humilis frutescens et spinosa filiquis conglobatis\n1436 Moldavica Betonicae fol. floribus majoribus caeruleis pendulis Am.\n1437 Oryza Lobel. Icon. 31. Offic. 336.\n1438 Plantago maxima Tartarica Gerberi\n1439 Scolymus Chrysanthemus annuus A. R. Par.\n1440 Scorpioides Bupleuri fol. corniculis asperis magis in se contortis et convolutis Mor. Hist.\n1441 Sideritis Hispanica frutescens seu lignosior I. R. H. 192.\n1442 Sonchus Lusitanicus Asplenii folio\n1443 Stachys Lychnitis Clufii\n1444 Tithymal. arboreus altissimus fol. falcis caulibus rubentibus Boer.\n1445 Trifolium globosum repens C. B. P. 329\n1446 Tordylium maximum Inst. R. H. 320.\n1447 Tragofelinum maximum Austriacum foliis magis incisis Boer.\n1448 Valeriana Lusitanica latifolia annua laciniata Tourn. 132.\n1449 Verbena tenuifolia C. B.\n1450 Urtica racemifera maxima Sinarum foliis subtus argentea lanugine villosis. Pluk. Almag. 212.\n\nXXV. Some Observations upon the Sex of Flowers by W. Watson, F. R. S. occasioned by a Letter upon the same Subject, by Mr. Mylius of Berlin.\n\nExtract of Mr. Mylius's Letter to Mr. Watson, dated at Berlin, Feb. 20, 1750-51.\n\nRead May 2. \"THE sex of plants is very well confirmed by an experiment, that has been made here on the palma major foliis flabelliformibus. There is a great tree of this kind in the garden of the royal academy. It has flower'd and bore fruit these thirty years; but the fruit never ripen'd; and when planted, it did not vegetate. The palm-tree, as you know, is a planta dioecia; that is, one of those, in which the male and female parts of generation are upon different plants. 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