t 3^9 ) 
dtm, TracheUum minus ejufdem. Trachelium majus Bel- Brown 
garum Park.), is very thick, and prefently curdks f the ^^^J^" 
fcrous part or Whey being of a brown Colour. Thefe 
Juices feell ftwcr, fomething like the flices of green 
Apples, wbirh bfEve been long cut. 
The thin Milk of Tithymalus hdiofcopim Ger. fprings n^f^^^^ 
freely and plentifully, it fprings the tsfteft of any Plant 
I know with us ; it is very clammy upon the Fingers ? 
it is very white in drawing ; it turns upon a Lancet, of 
a dark Efewifh ; and indeed, it is both of the Colour 
and Confiftence of blew Skimmed Milk ^ Made up with 
Wheat Flower into Cakes, it fhews itfelf greafie or 
cily^ and fcarce ever dries, k very hardly breaks or 
coagulates. I kept fome of it pure and unmixt, in lit* 
tie Effence Bottles, flopped lightly with Cork only ; in 
thefe it broke in Procefs of time, and the Curds w«re 
eafily to be formed into Cakes, which Cakes buTned 
with a lading flame, and being melted drew forth into 
Strings like Wax 5 the Whey was clear and like i^it cUerWh 
Water. This broken Milk in all my Bottles was very cor* 
rupt and (linking. Q:^ What things are there, which may 
haften the breaking of Juices ? Whether to fuffer them: 
to fower in a Vefle! of Wood for Example, and 
then putting frejfh Taped Juice therein, will caufe 
any* fuddeii ftparation ? What refpefiive coagu* 
lum one fort of Juice may be to another, by be- 
ing mixt wiili various Circumftaoces ? Whether 
Rennet of Calfe or Hare, or the Flowers of 
Carlina, ^c, will have any cerfaio effect here', as 
upon the Milk of Animals l Another ioftancc of |Cor* 
ruption feparating the Juices of Vegetables, I find 
in Cat. Plant o A.^gL pagin. 331» by burying un-^ 
der Ground for a Year, a covered Earthen Pitch* 
er, well filled with the Leaves of Elder,- youU 
