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form of a fucker. Thefe contain the 

 embryo of a future tree; when thefe 

 have arrived to maturity, the trunk of 

 the tree falls to rife no more, and its 

 furrounding leaves wither and decay. 

 This tree, after three months growth, 

 arrives at full magnitude, and puts 

 forth its bloiToms in perfedt bloom. 



The Silk Grafs Plant nearly refembles 

 the American Aloes, but the height and 

 diameter of its trunk is lefs. Its flowers 

 are fingle, confifting of fix oval petals, 

 inclofing as many ftamina with apices, 

 and lurrounding a piftil. Its leaves 

 arife in a large clufter immediately from 

 the root ; they are about three feet in 

 length, and refemble thofe of the Ame- 

 rican Aloes, but are fomewhat thicker, 

 and their edi^es are moderatelv indent- 

 ed, the fpaces between each indenture 

 fifing into prickly points. The internal 



fubftance 



