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Next we have — " A Branch of the Humming Bird Tree." 

 which is no other than Impatiens fiilva or Jewel AYeecl, and a 

 very good representation. 



4. 



This plant the Humming Bird feedeth upon, it groweth 

 also in wet grounds and is not at its full growth till July. It 

 is garnished at the Top with many dangling yellow Flowers of 

 a bright yellow colour, &;c. 



In August, 1670, in a Swamp among Alders I found a sort 

 of Tree Sow Thistle, the stalks of some, of two or three inches 

 about, as hollow as a Kix and very brittle, &c. Laciiica 

 elongata, a succulent plant from two to nine feet high, and 

 with a hollow stem or stalk, 



5. 



This Plant I found in a gloomy dry wood, under an Oak, 

 1670, the 18th of August; afterwards I found it in open 

 Champain Grounds, but somewhat scarce, the root is about the 

 bigness of a French walnut, the bark thereof is brown and 

 rugged, within of a yellowish colour, from whence ariseth a 

 slender stalk no bigger than our oat straw, above two cubits in 

 height, somewhat better than an handful above the Root shoot- 

 eth out one Leaf of a grass green colour, and an inch or two 

 above that another Leaf and so four or five at a great distance 

 one from another, till they come within a handfull of the Top, 

 where upon slender Footstalks grow the Flowers four or five 

 more or fewer, clustering together in long green husks, milk- 

 white, consisting of ten small Leaves snipt a little on the edge 

 with purple. 



Then follows a figure of this peculiar " Rarity" in its full 

 growth, which I should call Nahalus albiis. 



6. 



We are presented with a very good cut of Chelone 

 glahi^a or Snake's Head, of which we are told that the Plant 

 flowers in August and grows in wet ground ; it is about three 

 or four foot in height having a square slender stalk champered 

 hollow and ruff; the Leaves grow at certain distances, one against 

 another of the colour of Egrimony. The Flowers are of one 

 Leaf, shaped like the head of a Serpent opening at the top like 



