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 grounded, when fuch a tree ftands, 

 as is often the cafe in a narrow 

 yard confined by the furrounding 

 buildings. 



It is a general belief in the Weft 

 Indies, founded upon confront ex- 

 perience, that the mangeneel-tree 

 Hippomane Mancinella (Linn. Spec. 

 Plant. T431) throws out very hurt- 

 ful exhalations, Co as to endanger 

 thofe people, who, ignorant of the 

 nature of this tree, venture to lay 

 down und.r it. 



The plant called Lcbella Longiflora t 

 growing alfo in the Weft Indies, 

 fpreads fuch deleterious exhalations 

 from it, that a considerable oppref- 

 iion is felt upon the breaft in ap- 

 proaching, at feveral feet diftance, 

 this plant, placed in the corner of 

 a hot-houfe or room. "(See the de 1 - 

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