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

A Collection of Mosses and Coralines [corallines]

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

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

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

Silk grass, Cabbage seed & Nut

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

A handsome Specimen of Antipathis, or Sea Weed

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

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

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

Two stalks of Indian corn sixteen feet in height

A vegetable unknown

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