(l200) 
confirm Dr. 7V»^'s. Since the Leaves have been explicated, we have 
obfervM the Sycamore ^i^ter fevcral frofty nights to bleed afrefti in the 
morning, foon after Sun-rifing, when it had ceafcd feverai diyes before : 
1 hough thismuft not be underftoodof all Sycamores, but of fo me on- 
ly that are more fenfible and obfervant of the Weather. 
jipril 3^. and ^th. all the Sycamores quite ceafed. 
The5^^. being after a white froft, they began to bleed about 8 a clock, 
and cea led towards noon. 
The gth^ iith^ i^th, i^ththey bled again. 
The iQth^ I ith, i^th were not obfervcd. 
This i6th they bled not, it being rainy, and the Sun not (hining. 
From the Obfervations we have hitherto made, we think it may be 
certainly inferred , that a morning-fun after a froft will make all the 
Bleedmg Tribe bleed afrefh, though they had before ceafed s and that 
this new bleeding towards the latter end of the feafon commonly ceafeth 
before morning. Poffibfy fome may bleed after a froft, yet further in the 
Summer. 
lobferved laft year in Atigfifl2L copious and fpontaneous exudation, 
very like bleeding, of avifcous yellow Juice out of the buds of a black 
Poplar. Our ivalmt'XXtt% bleed here in Jtmuary, 
The Starre-fijh, in the laft TraKfa^lions, is the Stelia arhorefcens Ron- 
deletii p. 121. firft dcfcribed by him, and fince by other Natura- 
lifts. 
There is nofuch Awdir^-Oak^m Old England, growing wild, aswasfent 
you out of J^eT»-Englandy nor in any other Country, where we have 
been, unlefs it be the Ilex coccifera, which is a low (hrub, bearing large 
Acorns, and hath a prickly leaf like Holly. If it prove that, it will be a 
lucriferous difcovcry. « Midleton in fVarwkk^fiire April i6. 1670. 
Jh Account of fom Books. 
1. Joh. Sig. Elfholtii, Eleaor. Brandenburg. Medici, CLYSMATICA 
NOVA ^ Jive Ratio in venam feHam Me die amenta immittendi, 
COLONIC BRANDeBVRGICz/£. i667.in8^ 
THe Title-page of this Book , but very lately come into England^ 
(hews this to be the fecond Edition . and the Author in the Conclu- 
fion of it tells the Reader , that the firfl Edition thereof was publick 
-^. 1665. atwhi^htimehe affirms there had been nothing printed ffor 
cughi he knew) either by EngUJh, French, or Italians, of this argu- 
menc, To which we fhall here fay nothing, but refer the Candid Rea- 
der to wh?t hach been faid already (by way of vindicating tli€ Invention, 
both of Mf*fing Msdical Liquors, and ol Transfnftng Blood, from ufur- 
pation) 
