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~Under‘a pretty large branch with its fpries on, ‘there lying 
a large Shell betwixt two and three Inches below it, ‘there wag 
rubbed on‘a {trong fented oyl, after alitcle'time allitheleaves on 
that {prig were fhut, and fo they continued all the time’of our’ 
flay there,but ac my recurne the neéxe day/ 1 fourid the pofition 
of the Shell alter’d, and the leaves ines as risa ‘and 
clofing upon the touch, Bt S10 yin 
~ Upon the application of the Suncbegab by: a Bangs 
the more bumble Plant fell, the other fhut their '‘leaves;'© 
We could not fo apply the fnioak of Sulpber, as to’ haveany 
vifible effe&t from that, at two or three times trial; but on ano- 
ther trial the fmoak Ares the leaves. it fiilceudddio lor). bus 
The bumble Plant = upon ee oft #2 Gals wherewith it 
was covered. | 
Cutting: off one of the little Shute, ib ns tnd of ti 
quor were thruft out of the part from whence that was cut,very 
cleer, and pellucid, of a bright greenifh colour, rafting‘ar firft a 
little bitterith but after leaving a licorifh-like tafte in my Htiouth, 
~ Since,going two or three times when it‘waseold;1 took the 
Glaffes from the more bumble Plantzand i it did riot falbas: fornier 
ly, but fhut its leaves onely. But coming afterwards, ‘whin the 
Sun thane very warm, as foon as i it was taken: off, 4 fellas 
before; — or ely otf 2 BE BLIOg. je a 
© Since i pluck d off another fortes while leaves worse 
and had been fo fome timé, thinking t to .obferve the liquor 
fhould come from that I had’ broken off, ‘but’ finding none; 
though with prefling,to come, I, 4s dexteroiifly as 1 could, ,pull’é 
off one whofe leaves were expanded and then had upontthe fhut- 
ting of the leaves, a dittle of the ‘mention’d liquor, from tlie end 
i Thad broken from the Plant, - And this twice fue 
ceflively, as often almoft as I durft robthe Plant. 2X 
But my curiofity carrying me yet further, 1 cut off one of 
the harder branches of the ftronger Plant, and there came of the 
) fiquor; 
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