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a dark brown colour, the leaves like great 
Maple, in England cilkd Sycamor, but lar-, 
gcr, it may be this is the Tree they brag of. 
Thus much concerning Trees, now I (hall 
prefent to your view the Shrubs> and fit ft of 
. the Sumach Shrub,which as I have told you 
in NetP'Enzlands rarities, differeth from all 
the kinds (et down in our Englijh Herbals j 
the root dyeth wool or cloth reddiflij^ the 
decodion of the leaves in wine drunk, is 
good for all Fluxes of the belly in man or 
woman, the whites, d^c. For galled places 
ftamp the leaves with honey, and apply it, 
nothing fo Toon healeth a wound in the 
head as Sumach ftampt and applyed once in 
three dayes, the powder ftrewed in ftayeth 
the bleeding of wounds : The feed of Su- 
mach pounded and mixt with honey, hca* 
Icth the Hemorrhoids, the gum put into a 
hollow tooth affwageth the pain, the bark 
01 berries in the fall of the leaf, is as good 
as galls to make Ink of. 
Elder in New-England \s (btubbie5& dies 
once in two yearr. thei^ is a fort of dwarf- 
Eider that giowes by the Sea- fide that hath 
a red pich, the berries of both are fmaller 
th^nE«g/i/fe-Eldcr,not round but corner'd, 
neither of them fmcU fo firong as ours. 
Juniper growes for the moft part by the 
Sea fidcj it bears abundance of skic-colou- 
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