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The Leaves, which are fet on alternately, are about Four Inches long, 
and Two broad, having their middle Ribs ftrong and prominent. 
Its numerous {mall herbaceous Flowers grow in Clufters at the Extres 
mities of their Stalks ; and are fucceeded by {mall round Berries. 
The inner yellow Bark of the Root, bruifed, and fteeped in boiling 
| Water, tinges it with a yellow Colour. 
| Wathing fore Eyes with this Water hath of late been difcovered to be 
a fovereign Remedy in moft Diforders of the Eyes. 
The PyE-crusT. 
HIS is a middle-fized Tree, having many ftrong Roots. 
The Bark of the main Body is of a dark Grey. 
The Leaves are very many, thick, {mooth, and round-pointed, but very 
narrow towards their Stalks. 
Thefe are of a deep {mutty Green on the upper Side; and fomewhat 
lighter on the under, and fet on the Branches in an irregular manner. 
They bear feveral apetalous Flowers, which are fucceeded by yellow 
Berries, of the Bignefs of a middle-fized Olive, whofe yellowifh bitter 
Pulp inclofes Three whitifh Seeds. 
The Texture of the Tree is very brittle, from whence it derived the 
Name of Pye-cru/t. 
The DwarF MANGROVE. 
| HIS Shrub grows by the Sea or Pond-fides in wet Places. 
The Trunk and numerous Branches are cloathed with {fhining 
green Leaves, Two Inches and an half long, and an Inch and, an halt 
broad. 
Among the upper Branches are many {mall tubular Flowers, filied with 
yellow Stamina, fucceeded by {mall Berties. 
Montraspa, ahas TRUBBA. 
a Oe IS is a low fhrubby Buth, divided into many Branches ; the out- 
| - fide Bark of a whitifh Grey, covered with an hoary Mealinefs. 
The Infide is of a ligneous Subftance, which furrounds a greenifh Pith. 
The Roots are many. and white. 
The Leaves are fet on alternately ; and thefe are of a green Colour 
above, and whitifh underneath ; their Length about Five Inches, and 
above Three in Breadth, efpecially at fuch Places where they are bluntly 
j and irregularly {calloped about their Edges. 
; The Flowers are monopetalous, and of a reddifh White, expanding, in 
the Heat of the Day, almoft horizontally flat; their Ore being flightly 
: - fegmented, and divided into Six fharp-pointed Angles. 
From the Centre of the Flower rifes a white Piftil, furrounded by Six 
yellow thick triangular Stamina. : 
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