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Place, provided they are not over- 

 borne by large Weeds. 



AH the £orts of Ail-heal are fup- 

 pos'd to have an aftringent Quality, 

 and are accounted good to heal 

 Wounds, and may be applied either 

 inwardly or outwardly. 



SIDEROXYLUM, Iron-wood. 

 The Characters are ; 



The Empalement of the Flower 

 torfsjls of one Leaf, 'which is cut into 

 five Segments : the Flower is bell- 

 Jbaped, and divided into fve? arts at 

 the Brim : in the Centre of the Flow- 

 er is ftuated the roundijh Pointal, 

 attended by five Stamina : the Pointal 

 afterward becomes a roundijh Berry, 

 having one Cell, containing four 

 Seeds. 



> The Species are ; 



1. Sideroxylum inerme. Lin. 

 Hort. Cliff- Smooth Iron wood. 



2. Side roxylum foliis lane tola- 

 tis ex adverfo fitis. Iron- wood with 

 fpear fhap'd Leaves growing oppo- 

 fite. 



3. Siderox Yivui fpinofum. Lin. 

 Hort. Cliff. Prickly Iron- wood. 



The Wood of thefe Trees being 

 very clofe and folid, has given oc- 

 cafion for this Name being applied 

 to them, it being fo heavy as to fink 

 in Water ; and the Title of Iron- 

 wood having been apply'd to the 

 Wood, by the Inhabitants of the 

 Countries where it grows, has occa- 

 fion'd the Botanifts to conftitute a 

 Genus by this Name. But as the 

 Characters of the Plants have not 

 been fo well examin'd as could be 

 wifh'd^ccafion'd by their not flower- 

 ing in Europe, it is very probable, 

 that the three Species here mention'd 

 may not agree in every Part ; as I 

 think the third will not : for in 

 fome dried Samples of the Tree, 

 which I'have received from Ameri- 

 ca; \t appears, that this is Male and 

 Female in different Plants, which 



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the others are not : but as this Plant 

 has been joined to them by other 

 Botanifts, I have chofen to continue 

 it here, as I have not been able to 

 examine the Characters myfelf. 



Thefe Plants areNatives of warm 

 Countries ; fo cannot be preferv'd in 

 England, unlef> they are placed in a 

 warm Stove. They are propagated 

 by Seeds, when thefe "can be pro- 

 cured from abroad. Thefe muft be 

 fovvn in Pots fiird with rich light 

 Earth, and plung'd into a good 

 Hot- bed in the Spring, in order to 

 get the Plants forward early in the 

 Seafon. When the Plants are fit to 

 tranfplant, they mould be each put 

 into a feparate fmall Pot filled with 

 good Earth, and plung'd into a 

 frefh Hot-be^. In the Winter they 

 muft be plung'd into the Tan-bed 

 in the Stove, and treated in the fame 

 manner as hath been directed for 

 feverai tender Plants from the fame 

 Countries. As the Plants obtain 

 Strength-, they may be treated more 

 hardily, by placing them . in the dry 

 Stove in the Winter, and giving 

 them a greater Share of free Air in 

 Summer ; but they muft not be pla- 

 ced abroad; for they are too tender 

 to live in the open Air in the Sum-? 

 mer-feafon in England. 



The firft and fecond Sorts I have 

 propagated by Layers; but thefe 

 were two Years before they had 

 made good Roots : and fometimes 

 they will take from Cuttings ; but 

 this is a very uncertain Method of 

 propagating them: nor do t. e Plants 

 fo rais'd ever grow fo vigoroufly as 

 thofe which come from Seeds ; i'o 

 that when thofe can be procur'd, it 

 is the beft Method to propagate 

 them. 



The' firft Sort hath large oval 

 Leaves, fhaped iomewhat like thole 

 of the Bay-tree ; but fmoother, and 

 blunter at the End. Tr.de are pla- 

 ced 



