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Mr. Evelyn, wlu-thcrjt be tender, fatty, dcterfive, or ^ may, with a brufli, pi after the incifions which arc 



made for the inocuhtionj^ grafting-, &c. 

 Garden or Foreft Mummy ; the tame author direifls 

 ■ the making it as follows : 



Take three pounds of com.mon turpentine, and four 

 pounds of common pitch •, melt the turpentine over 

 the fire, and, having beaten the pitch to a powder, 

 throw it in ; when they are well mixed together, and 

 grown pretty thick, take it off, and keep it for ufe. 

 This compofition may be either made up into little 

 fticks, like thofe of fealing-wax, to be made ufe of 

 on little trees, or it may be kept in little pots, and 

 melted over a flow fire, when there is occafion to ufe 



it, and, dipping a little brufli in it, you may plafter 

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The Noble Mummy, or grafting wax 5 to make this 

 ■ the fame author direfts : > r.' ' ' ^ 



Take two pounds of pure pltfch, fuch as is called at 

 Ratifbon virgin pitch, and add to it half a pound of 

 good turpentine; put them together in ^n earthen 

 pot, and fet them over the fire, that the volatile part 

 of the turpentine maj^ evaporate, ocherwife it would 

 ,be very prejudicial to trees and roots. Prove it as'you 

 , did the former, to know when it is enough ; then 



flippcry, or more har(h, gritty, porous, or friable. 

 '• That being always the bell that is between the two 

 '■• extremes, and does not contain the two different qua- 

 lities of foft and hard mixed, of moift and dry, of 

 "churlifh and mild, that is neither too un6tuous or too 

 lean, but fuch as will diifolve, of a juft confiftence, 

 between fand and clay, and fuch as will not ftick to 

 the fpade or fingers upon every flalh of rain. 

 A loam, or brick Mould, is not to be difapproved, 

 as requiring little help or improvement but the fpade, 

 and is efteemed both by the gardener and florift. 

 MUCILAGE is a vifcous clammy fubftance about 



^'' feeds, &c. 



'mucilaginous fignifies, endowed with a 



clammy vifcous matter. 

 jilULBERRY. See MoRus. j . , 



MULLEIN. See Verbascum, 

 MULTISILI QJJ O U S plants are fuch as have 

 ""^ after each flower, many diftindt, long, flehder, and, 



oftentimes, crooked cafes, or filiqua^, in which their 

 ■'Teed is contained, and, which, when they ripen, open 

 ';,of themfelves, and let the feeds drop. *C Of this kind 

 ■''*js the Bear'-s-foot, Columbines, common Houfe- 



leek, Navelvvort, Orpine, &c. '^* 

 MUMMY, a fort of 



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rafting wax, made of one 



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pound of common black pitch, and a quarter of a 

 pound of common turpentine, put into an earthen 

 pot, and fet on the fire in the open air ; \n doing this 



add'to it half a pound of virgin wax, and half an 

 ounce of pounded Myrrh and Aloes ; when thefe are- 

 well mixed, make it up into little rolls or plafters. 





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' ver it, in order to quench it, by putting it thereon, 

 '' which is to be done feveral times, fetting it on the 

 -fire again, that the" nitrous and volatile parts may be 

 ■-'evaporated. 'The way tB kndW ivheh it is' enough 

 •' js by pourihg a' little of it on a pewter plate, and if 

 '" it be fo, it will coagulate prefently ; then this melted 

 \ pitch is toTDC poured into another pot, and a little 

 ** common wax is to be added to it, mixing them well 



or elfe it may be kept in gallipots. 



,* The time he direfts'when the operation of the roots 



is to bd performed, isTri the month of September, 



Odober, and November^ v'thbtfgh it'ririayTucceed Well 



Ij^'Bt any time of the year, yet thofe months are the 

 ^t^'moft proper feafons for it. The onl^ difference he 

 ''^t'!ays,'is, what is jpTanted in the'fpnhg, will fhdot out 

 June 6r July, and what is planted in autumn 



together, and then to be kept for ufe. 



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■When you would drefs roots with this wax," you 



" riiuft melt it, and afterwards let it cool a little •, then 



'dip in the ends of the roots you would plant (for he 



i'propofes it for the planting pieces of roots of trees, 



^•&c.)Vnc' after* the other, but not too deep, and af- 



-^'tcrwards to |)ut them in water, and tq plant them 



Hn the earth, the fmall end downwards, lb that the 



larger end may appear a little way out thereof, and 

 ■ -have the benefit of the air, and then to prefs the earth 



very hard down about them," that they may' hot re- 

 ' ceive too much wet, becaufe that would rot them.^ - 



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comes not forth till the month of April. 

 The aforefaid author mentions great perforrpances by 

 ufing thefe Mummies ; thofe who' have a mind to be 

 fatisfied, may perufe his treatife. 



Gen. Plant, gj^. 

 .The Characters are. 



The empalement of the flower is cut into five feg. 

 to the bottom. The flower hath five heart-fioapedp 



ife^ which are inferted in the en 



fpread open like a Rcfi. 



It has 



•Take half a pound of 'gum copal, 

 and fearce it ; take three pounds of Venice turpentine, 



^ 'and melt it over a (low fire Jn^aftrong earthen pot ; 



* * when the turpentine Is melted an3 liquidated, put the 

 fifted gum into it, keep it cohtTriually flirring with a 

 little flick, augmenting the fire gradually, and it will 

 all diifolve infenfibly ; afterwards let the turpentine 

 evaporate well, and it will thicken ; and when it is be- 

 comeof a fufficient confiftence, Jrou may make it up 

 into little rolls, like fealing-wax, and keep it for lile. 

 This Mummy, he fays, is ah excellent vulnerai^Tor 

 pWs, it being fubjeft to no corruption, as other 

 gummy things are ; it hinders any rottennefs between 

 the flock and the root, by means of which the'callus 

 is formed the fooner, and fpreads over all the' parts, 

 and the ftock becomes entirely connefted with the 

 root. It alfo gives ftrength and vigour to the. root, 

 and likewife facilitates it. 



a great num- 

 ber offtamina^ which are terminated by roundifl^ fummlts. 

 ' In the center isfttuated a roundi/h getme% having mftyle^ 

 ' ^ J^ut Js crowned ly a ftigma divided into^ many parts. The 

 "^ -germen 'after ward turns to a fofi' fruit /with jne cell, 



'^^^cfoibned by the ftigma\ like a navel, and filled with fmall 



' feeds, i/t^'^-'-^^i'^ f-. K-4,,«,4^i-* 'iJ-pM^j^4, , r..wA. .'*'.-;w: . -.i- 



! (This genus of plants is ranged iri thcfiril feftion of 

 ' ' LinnaeusV'thirteerith clafi/^ which includes thofe 

 * "ptaiits'whofe flowers have'many ftaminaandonefircr. 

 ma;^ -'According to Tournefort's fyftem, 1t*-!hufl &c 

 ranged in the eighth fedlion of his twenty-firfl clafs, 

 which contains the trees an3 IhruSs with a Rofe 

 flower, whofe empalement becomes' a friiit, Tiaving 

 hard feeds. ' .:"' ^-'V -^ ^-■'-- -^-*^*-> - .*^- ' 



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MuNTiNGiA {Calabura.) Jacq. Hift. tab. 107. 



' tlngia folio fericeb molli, frudtu majori. Plum. Nov. 



Gen. 41, Muntingia with a foft filky leaf and a larger 

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. The title of this genus was given to it by Father Plu- 



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. for of botany at Groningen in Holland, who publifti* 

 ' ed a folio book of botany, entitled, Phytogra!phia 

 Curiofa, in which there are rriany figures of plants ex- 

 hibited, engraven on copper-plates i he alfo publifhed 

 two books of plants in quarto, one of which is enti- 

 tled, Aloidarum, in which the figures of feveral forts 

 of Aloes are exhibited ; the title of the other is, De 

 Herba Britannica' Antiquorum. 

 This plant is figured and defcribcd by Sir Hari$ 

 ■ Sloane, in his Hiflory of Jamaica, by the title of 

 Loti arbbris folio ariguftiore, rubi flore, fruftu poiy^ 

 peFmb umbilicfaiK), i". p. 80. This rifes to the'heighc 

 ^iil they have done fmoking, and, when cool, you I of thirty feet or more in its native foil, fending out 



Vegetable Mummy; the fame author directs the 

 niaking of this as follows : ' ■ " ■ 



Fill a large ketde, or earthen pot, about a third 

 part full of common black pitch, and add to it a 

 little fine refin, or fulphurated pitch, and a little yel- 

 low wax i melt' tliefe together till they become li- 

 quid, then take them ofi:* the fiVe,'and let them ftand 



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