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upon the branches of trees ; on which It makes* a 

 very conspiciious figure. It grows two feet high, 

 and its ^branches are so numerous^ and spread in 



such a manner. 



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tall, and appears a round yellow tuft of that di- 

 ameter^ quite unlike to the tree on which it grows. 

 Ml fruit, leaves, and bark. The main stem is half 

 an inch in diameter ; the branches divide always 

 by two% and they easily break at the joints or 

 divisions. The bark is throughout of a yellowish 

 colour,' though with- some mixture of green on 

 the young shoots ; the leaves are also yellowish; 

 they grow two at each joint : they are fleshy^ 

 oblong, narrowest at the bottom, and broader 

 toward the top. The flowers are yellow, but thej 

 are small and inconsiderable ; the fruit is a white 

 berry, round, and of the bigness of a pea, this is 

 full of a tougK clammy juice. 



The leaves of misletoe dried and powdered are 

 a famous remedy for the falling sickness. They 

 are good in all nervous disorders, and have been 

 known to perform great cures taken for a^ coptinu- 

 ance of time. 



The Indian Mybobalan Tree. Myrolalanu^ 



Indie a. 



A TREE native of the warmer climates and 

 not yet got into our gardens. It grows to twenty 

 feet high. The branches are numerous, and very 

 irregularly disposed. The leaves are long and 

 narrow : the flowers are white, and like the blos- 

 soms of our plum trees ; and the fruit resemblea 

 a plum, oblong and l.fleshy, with a long stone or 

 kernel ; but the fruit is generally gathered before 

 the stone hardens, so that it seems to have nunc. 



We used to h&vc the fruit brought over, and it 



