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\| Poyfon tree. 
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whith colouriseafily difcerned:, the reft-of the kernel being {0 per- 
‘}havelook’d oncthera which have been longer kept , after I brought 
thick as to covet them 3 and they grow in-tufts or bunches, and ever 
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feétly- white; Take out that film, and; you may eat the nut fafely., 
without any operation at all; and ’tisas | {weet, \as a Fordan-Almond., 
This filmis perfely difcern'd, when the nut isnew gathered; butI 
them into Exg/and, andI find the Carnation, colourquite gone,but the 
kernel retains {till his operation, both in Vomit and Purge. Rae ar 
“The leaves are fhap’d notmuch unlike a Vine leaf, but thrice as big, 
and much thicker, and fuller green. oT 7 bigebs; 
The poyfoned:tree , though I cannot commend for her vertues, | 
-yet for herbeautiesIcan. She is almoft as large every way.as the Lo- 
-cuft, but notof thatmanner of growing 5, herieaves full out as large | 
-and beautifaly.asthe Lawrels, and fo like, as not to be known afun- 
der. The people: that have lived long there, fay, ‘tis not wholfom to} _ 
be under the fhade of thistree. The fellers, as they cut them down, are 
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poyfons, though with good ordering it makes bread. “Tis rather a 
fhrubthana tree, thefprigs, few. of them biggerthan a broom-ftaff; | 
crooked and ill fhap’d ; but no matter forthat, for the leaves are fo 
an.odd one, as, 5.7. 9. o# 1 1.every leafaninch broad, and fix or feven 
inches-long; datk green, and turning backward from the forefide, 
Their Roots [have fet down already, their bignefs, and manner of 
growth, withthe ufeofthem.. | alae 
Coloquintida is as beautiful a fruit, as any you can fee, of the big-} 
nefS: df an Oftraches egg 5 a fruit of fo ill a talte, as a {poonful of the 
liquor mars 4 whole pot ofpottage ; the rind fmooth, with various 
teens, interlac’d with murries, yellows, and faint Carnations, 
boNextto this fhallbe the Caffia fiftula, which isa tree that will grow 
the moft, in the leaft time, of any that ever I knew : Ifetone of the 
feeds, (which is but’a fmallfeed) and in.a years time, it grewto be 
eightfoot high, and aslarge and big in theftem, as an ordinary Rat- 
toon you walkwithall : The leaf ofthis tree is like that ofan Afh, but 
much longer; -andofa darker colour; the fruit, when ‘tis ripe, juftof 
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