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

Dittany, or Mountain Tea, used by the Hunters

A singular Squash

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

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

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

A double Hickory nut

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

Two stalks of Indian corn sixteen feet in height

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

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

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

Roots of the Blue Grass, or Sward

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

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