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Misseltoe (Viscum Album) taken from a tree near the tomb of General Washington

Dittany, or Mountain Tea, used by the Hunters

A leaf of the Beach [beech] from the sulphur Springs, Gene. [Genesee, N.Y.]

A Weed of the Sea called, Cape Ann [morring?]

Areeka [areca] or Beetel Nuts, deprived of the outer covering

A large Acorn, from Virginia

Water Melon, purchased in the Jersey market by the donor, said to be not fit to eat, until the Spring of the year

Several Large gooseberrys, the growth of Mr. Z. Collins's garden, one of which weight 10 pennyweight 22 grains

A double Hickory nut

A Collection of Mosses and Coralines [corallines]

Specimen of the fiber of Asclipias [Asclepias] Bombycina or Swallow wart, or Milk weed

A remarkable large Turnip, weighing 80lbs. which grew in North-Carolina the last season

Roots of the Blue Grass, or Sward

A singular Squash

Silk grass, Cabbage seed & Nut