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The Natural Liftory of the Book VII. 
ference; the Whole, which at a Diftance feems to be but one, is eompofed 
of feveral Scores of fingle yellow Flowers, each of thefe ftanding upon. a 
longifh pod-like Stalk of a yellowifh Green, terminating in fix tharp-pointed 
thick yellow Petals, From the Centre of thefe rifes the Piftil, which is ftrong 
and blunt-pointed ; the Petals furround fix Stamina of about two. Inches 
long; thefe are tipped with large falcated pices, which, when ripe, are 
covered with yellow farinaceous Duft. The Socket of the Flower is thick] 
befprinkled with a very {weet Honey-dew: ‘This draws to it Abundance 
of Humming-birds and Bees.. The Infide of the Trunk is. a fnow-white Pith, 
{pongy and porous: When the Blofloms are dropped, their hufky long Pe- 
dicles {hoot out into many fharp-pointed Leaves of about two Inches long, 
and near as broad: Thefe, growing clofe upon one another, are fomewhat, at 
their Extremities, expanded, and form a Sucker not very unlike a Pine-fucker, 
When thefe grow ripe, they fall down to the Ground, and take Root. 
In a fhort time after it hath produced Flowers, the Body of the Tree, 
which fo late was tall and flourifhing, falls proftrate to the Earth, and perifh- 
eth; and the very large Leaves, which furrounded it at the Bottom, in like 
manner wither and die. Having cut down one of thefe at the End, as I 
was informed, of three Months Growth, however furprifing it may appear 
to fome, yet it meafured full nine-and-twenty Feet in Height, and ver 
near three Feet in Circumference near the Earth ; and, having carefully 
weighed it, its Weight amounted to two hundred and ten Pounds; {fo that 
its additional Weight each Day was far above two Pounds: Or if we confi- 
der its Height, and its Number of Days in growing, we fhall find, that it grew 
three Inches and about three Quarters of an Inch in every four-and-twenty 
Hours. This very extraordinary Growth far furpaffes any other Computa- 
tion hitherto taken notice of, being far fuperior to the Remarks of the inge- 
nious Mr. Hel/mont upon the Willow he planted, after five Years Growth 
of which, the Leaves, Roots, main Stalk, and Branches did not exceed 
five hundred Weight. 
_ Forest-Bark, or BasTarbD Locust. 
HIS grows to be a large Tree cloathed with longifh green Leaves ; ‘the 
Bark is much fulcated, and made ufe of asa good Reftringent. 
The GuM-ELEMI TREE. 
Tus grows to be a large Tree, from whofe Trunk, when the Bark is. 
wounded, flows the Gum called the Gum Ekemi. 
The Siux-Grass; Lat. Aloe Barbadienfis. . 
THE {everal faponaceous green Leaves, furrounding this Tree near the 
© Earth, and taking their Rife without any Footftalks from its Trunk, 
are about two Feet and an half long, feven Inches broad near the Middle, and 
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