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A cluster of Pitch Pine, Burs [burls?] about 33 in number

The plants commonly called "Bone Set" prepared in this form by the Shakers at Berwick, Pa.

Large growth of Oats, raised near the City, measuring 6 feet 3-1/2 in. high

A singular Squash

A transverse section of a Tree, which appears to have a second one within, there being two Saps and Barks. Cut in New Castle county. State of Delaware

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

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

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

Dittany, or Mountain Tea, used by the Hunters

A double Hickory nut

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

Roots of the Blue Grass, or Sward

A handsome Specimen of Antipathis, or Sea Weed

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

A large Acorn, from Virginia