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yellow pendulous flowers.— Thefe flow- 

 ers, when bruifed, afford a juice which 

 is highly afHngent and defkeative, and 

 which Dr. Hillary efteems a fpecific 

 for the cure of ring- worms, which in 

 this climate are extsemely troublefome* 



The American Aloes Tree, or May- 

 Pole, is no lefs admirable than beauti- 

 ful, being ufually planted in gardens 

 and walks. The trunk of this tree is 

 ever green, uiiiaily about nine inches in 

 diameter, and twenty- five feet in -height. 

 Its bark confifts of elegant triangular 

 laminae, or follicles, which terminate in 

 a prickly point ; thefe gradually di- 

 minith in fize, as they approach the 

 top. The internal fubftance, both of 

 the trunk and its branches, is a white 

 fpongy pith. The trunk, near the 

 earth, is forrounded by a thicket of 

 leaves arifing immediately from the 



roots. 



