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A vegetable unknown

Dittany, or Mountain Tea, used by the Hunters

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

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

Two stalks of Indian corn sixteen feet in height

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

Roots of the Blue Grass, or Sward

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

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

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

Silk grass, Cabbage seed & Nut

A double Hickory nut

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

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