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fcription of this plant in Yacquiné 
Hortus Botanicus Vindobonenjis }. 
The plant called Dicfamimnus Albus, 
or Fraxinella, which is by no means 
fare throughout almoft all Europe, 
when in flower fpreads round about 
inflammable air, which, by the ap- 
proach of a candle by piehty flafhes | 
as other inflammable air does. We 
ae that an animal bres Pit 3 
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 rifk 
of being killed by it. 
_ May we not afcribe the. Samholee 
fomenefs of the air of that immenfe — 
plain in which Rome ftands to the 
want of trees and other vegetables? — 
| That verre Was, in sncigak aay ; a 
: ‘ country, whéa it was Spell c ale ats eS 
