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ledled providing themfelves with a fuf- 

 ficient quantity of plantins, caflava, &c. 

 The timber of Green Hart, efpecially 

 the black kind, is very valuable for its 

 weight, folidity, and permanence. 



The Purple Hart Tree grows to equal 

 height and magnitude with the former. 

 It is covered with fmooth, dark brown- 

 coloured bark, and its branches arife, 

 near the top, with middle- fized oval 

 leaves, difpofed in pairs ; the flowers 

 are of a reddifh colour, confifting of 

 five petals, thefe are fucceeded by fmall 

 crimfon berries, with feeds. — This wood 

 is of a bright crimfon colour, but its 

 outride, after being fome time expofed 

 to the air, changes gradually to a deep 

 purple colour. The timber is extremely 

 heavy and durable, and is e (teemed 

 more valuable than either of the 

 former, 



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