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fcription of this plant in Jacquini 

 Hortus Botanicus Vindobonenjis ) . 



The plant called DiSIamnus Albus, 

 or Fraxinella, which is by no means 

 rare throughout almoft all Europe, 

 when in flower fpreads round about 

 inflammable air, which, by the ap- 

 proach of a candle by night, frames 

 as other inflammable air does. We 

 know that an animal breathing in 

 this kind of air lofes its life : fo 

 that if a man was to fleep with his 

 head in the middle of the branches 

 of this plant, he might run a rifle 

 of being killed by it. 



May we not afcribe the linwhole- 

 fomenefs of the air of that immenfe 

 plain in which Rome Hands to the 

 want of trees and other vegetables ? 

 That very plain was, in ancient times, 

 reputed to be a very wholefome 

 country, when it was well cultivated 



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