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Wild Cherries, thej grow in clusters like Grapes, of the 

 same bigness, blackish, red when ripe and of a harsh taste, 

 {Prumis Virginlana ;) they are good for Fluxes ; transplant- 

 ed and manured they grow exceedingly fair. 



Board Pine {Piniis strobi/s,) is a very large tree two or 

 three Fadom about. It yields a very soveraigne Turpentine 

 for the curing of desperate Wounds. The Larch Pine {La?^ix 

 Amerlca?ia), which is the only tree of all the Pines that sheds 

 its Leaves before winter the other remaining green all the 

 year, &c. &c. This is the tree from which we gather that 

 useful and purging excresence Agarick. 



This famous " Agarick" must have been some perennial 

 woody species of Polyponis^ mistaken for Pokjioorus officinalis 

 of the old writers, who attributed to it many medicinal virtues; 

 but now in disuse. See Fries Syst. Myc : I. 365. Also 

 Burnet's Outlines of Botany. Vol. I. p. 248. Parkinson's 

 Theater of Plants, p. 249, for figures. 



Spruce is a goodly Tree, of which they make masts for 

 Ships and Sail yards. Abies nigra and alba. 



Hemlock Tree, a kind of spruce ; the bark of this Tree 

 serves to die tawny ; the Fishers tan their Sails and Nets with 

 it. Abies Canadensis. 



Cran Berry or Bear Berry, ( Vaccinimn tnacrocarpimi,) 

 because bears use much to feed on them, is a small trayling 

 plant that grows in [Salt] marshes that are overgrown with 

 Moss ; the tender Branches (which are reddish) run out in 

 great length, lying flat on the ground, where at distances, they 

 take root overspreading sometimes half an Acre, sometimes in 

 small patches about a Rod or the like; the Leaves are like Box, 

 but greener, thick and glistening ; the Blossoms are very like 

 the flowers of our English Night Shade, after which succeed 

 the berries, hanging by long small footstalks, no bigger than a 

 hair ; at first they are of a pale yellow colour, afterwards Red 

 and as big as a cherry ; some perfectly round, others oval ; all 

 of them hollow, of a sower astringent taste ; they are ripe in 

 Aiigust and Sejitember. 



Vines, much differing in the Fruit, all of them very fleshy, 

 some reasonably pleasant, others have a taste of Gunpowder, 

 and these grow in swamps and in low wet grounds. {GjiaUheria 



