E 22 3 3 



meafure of it with two of nitrous J^ an " or 

 air occupied 0.93 ; with three^S 



troyed. 

 I.7O. 



62. Leaves of Lauro-cerafus (one 

 of the moft active poifons that exifts 

 in the vegetable kingdom, when 

 in a concentrated ft ate, killing an 

 animal almoft in an inftantc and 

 equally poifonous when taken in 

 the ftomach, as when applied to a 

 wound, which laft effect was lately 

 difcovered by Abbe Fontana) treated 

 in the ordinary way yield a good 

 deal of dephlogilticated air. Two 

 handfuls of them expofed in water 

 to the fun, between eleven in the 

 morning and five in the afternoon, 

 yielded a good deal of dephlogifti- 

 cated air, whofe teft was 1.87 : 

 I.67; 1.50; 2.04; 3.04. 394 



63. Two handfuls of common 

 night-Jhade^ a fufpected plant, ex- 



