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F I C U S 2. Arborefcens folio ovato, fruSlu minori glabra. 



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FICUS 3- Arborefcens, foliis.oblongo-cvatis, b ace is fubverucofis, 



The Mountain Fig-tree, with fmall warted Berries 



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The Hart leafed wild Fig 



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Arborea affurgens utrinqiie brachiafa, foliis oval 

 diculas tenues flexiles dependences demittentibiis 



Foliis lanceolatis petiolatis, pedunculis agregatis 



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The wild Fig tree, or the Indian God-tree. 



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This monftrous tree is, at firft, but a weakly climbing plant that raifes itfelf by the 

 help of fome adjoining trunk, rock or tree j and continues to {hoot fome (lender 

 flexile radicles. 



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ppend 



that embrace the fupp 



and grow gradually 



downwards, as the ftem increafes : This at length gains the fummit, and beg 



fhoot both branches and radicles or 



the ground, throw 



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is to 

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ftems and fupporters to the parent pi 



many fmaller arms, take 



and become fo many 



new branches and append 



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 and to form a trunk from the fummit of its fupp 



which now begins to enlarg 



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hich ftill continues in the center of the firft radicl 



woven 



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fcent, and at length augmented and connected gradually into a common mafs or bo- 

 dy about the borrowed foundation ; which (if a vegetable) foon begins to decay, and 



gth is wholly loft within the luxuriant trunk it fupported. This tree is very 



common in both the Eafl and Weft Ind 



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tender itate 



feldom fails wh 



poor defpicable creeper in its 



it meets' with a proper fupport, and generally 



makes ufe of all the arts of true policy to perfect its growth j but when once 



pleat 



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ong time, for it throws out many hqw appendixes for every 

 to fail, and each more ufeful, as they fupport the top more immed 



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this all, for the roots frequently 



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the parent prop into other trees -, and th 

 whole grove. 



Politias & mores hinc difcite reges 



and thefe rife by 



plant is fometimes obferved to raife a 



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bottom of the trunk, all the roots (both big and little) to be cut away in that place, and the hole to 



be filled up with rubbifh, of a dry barren kind ; which, if the fame growth fhould ftill continue, may 

 be tried on another fide the following year. But if the tree does not bear thick, or the fruit be obferved 



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