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SYCAMORE TB£:E.— (Acer Fseudo-platantu.) 



Deacrip. — There are two sorts of this tree, the one bear- 

 ing fruit out of the body and erreater arms of the tree only, 

 the other upon stalks without leaves. The first grows 

 larger than the mulberry-tree, with round long leaves, 

 \>oiuted at the ends, and dented about the edges; it bears 

 fruit, but no flower, differing in that from all other trees. 

 The whole tree abounds with milk. The root is solid and 

 black, and abides fresh long after it is felled. The other, 

 which is called the Sycamore of Cyprus, grows as tall as a 

 plum tree, with broad and somewhat round leaves. 



Pldce, — The first grows chiefly in Egypt, Syria, and 

 Arabia, and the other in Cyprus, Cari^ Rhodes, &c. 



Oovemment and Virtuet. — They are under the particu- 

 lar influence of Venua The fruit makes the belly soluble, 

 but by its over-much moisture troubles the stomach and 

 ffives little nourishment. The milk taken from the tree, 

 by gently piercing the bark, afterwards dried and made 

 Into troches, softens and dissolves tumours, and solders 

 and closes together the lips of green wounds. The £ruit| 

 being applied as a plaster, has the same effect. 



TAMARISK-TREE.— (^ramorur Ocdlioa.) 



Descrip. — This never grows to any great size in Eng- 

 land, though in its native country it does, with a brown 

 rough dark bark. The younger branches are a chestnut 

 solour, clothed with fine tender green leaves, thinner and 

 finer than those of cypress; the flowers grow in rough spikes 

 at the ends of the younger shoots, about an inch long, se- 

 veral spikes growing together, each consisting of a great 

 many small, five-leaved, pale red flowers, which are suc- 

 ceeded by very small seed, included in a downy substance. 



PUice. — It is planted only in gardens in England, its 

 native pl^fcce is Spain, and the southern parts of France 

 The wood, bark, and leaves are used. 



Time, — It flowers about the end of May, or in Jane ; 

 and the seed is ripe in the beginning of September. 



Oovemment ana VirttLes,—ThiB a Saturnine herb. The 

 root, leaves, young branches, or bark boiled in wine, and 

 drank, stays the bleeding of the hemorrhoidal veins, the 

 spitting of blood, the too abounding of womens* courses, 

 the jaundice, the colic, and the bites of venomous serpents; 

 outwardly applied, it is powerful against the hardness r4 



