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

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

A Collection of Mosses and Coralines [corallines]

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

A double Hickory nut

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

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

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

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

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

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

Roots of the Blue Grass, or Sward

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 singular Squash