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i2u. Whether the like Rotting other Barks, will in 
like manner feparate their Juices > Alfo, Whether it 
be not to be Experienced in the rotting of Heibs > 
Whether the body of Holly have any Lime in it, as 
the Bark? 
samhucus. In cutting the tender tops of Elder, the latter end of 
May^ there will a ftringy Juice follow your Knife, 
and draw out in Threads, fomewhat like Bird lime 
or .the Juice of Holly it feems to be in certain 
Veins juft within the Circle of Teeth or Wood 
Bryma We are to Examine for this ftringy Juice, the 
ff/*. I^^ots of the Hyacinthtu kind, alfo n/cus, Vihurnum, 
ac'mhus Afphodelus Lancaflria Ger, Narc'tffiu Jyl. PalliJtu ca- 
^urmm^' '^^^ '^'^^ ^' Bryonia turn alba turrt nigra, Filix f£mi- 
Further, the Difleded Veins of many Plants, af- 
oiiyjmes, fbrd us Oyh that is, fuch a Juice, which being rubbed 
betwixt ones Fingers, is not at all Clammy, but makes 
them greafie and glib. Some of it ftiffens not, at far 
as 1 have yet Experienced, yet I believe it to be coagu- 
late and mixt. We will inftance in the Juice of 
-Hekmum. Heknium five Enula campana J, B. You may take 
it off with a clean Knife, whereon it looks like Oyi 
mixt with Water, that is, the thin or dilute Juice of 
the Plant, fpringing up out of the Wound, together 
with the Oyl. The like Experiment may be made 
upon acuta. 
Qu. Whether thefe Juices will not in procefs of 
time grow ftringy ? I having once ranged the Juice of 
Angelica fativa Park, amongft tho(e, and yet I found it 
altered after a Years keeping, and grown very Limy. 
TapfHibar- ^^pff^ harhatus Ger. If you ftrip off the Leaves in 
\ms. 7^»<?> it feems to yield an C)ily Juice, but very much 
thinned with the Watery one. It fprings freely enough ; 
it 
