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

A singular Squash

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

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

A handsome Specimen of Antipathis, or Sea Weed

Roots of the Blue Grass, or Sward

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

Silk grass, Cabbage seed & Nut

A Collection of Mosses and Coralines [corallines]

Several specimens of the Fring'd Oak or Moss Acorn of Penna.

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

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

A large Acorn, from Virginia

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

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