i82 Of Plants. Pa rt II. 
prettily waved by the tranfverfe eruption of feveral fmall 
iprigs. 
A fiippofed naturally entire RING of Wood, almoft 
in the fhape of a Womans Head-Roll, but not fo big as 
now worn, about four or five inches Diametre. Wor- 
miut alfo mentions one in his Mufaum like this, but fome- 
what bigger. 
PITT- WOOD. Lignum fojfile. Colour d like that of 
the Cedar, but a little brighter. Smooth, light and foft % 
yet hath no confpicuous pores. Hath neither taft nor 
imell. Whence this was dig'd, is uncertain. But in Lan- 
cajhire, and fome other places here in England, the people 
find the Bodies of large Trees at a good depth under- 
ground, and which the poorer fort burn, being fplmter d, 
to fave Candles. 
A BRANCH of a Tree, by fome called The COCK- 
SPUR Tree. Perhaps more properly, Oxyacantha Ameri- 
cana, or the AMERICAN HAWTHORNE. I meet with 
it no where defcrihed or mentiond. This Branch is an 
Eln long , without any appendent Branches. An inch 
Diametre. Of the folidity of Hawthorne-Wood. Encom- 
pafled with great Thomes alternately placed on every fide, 
fo afcending, as every two Thomes on the fame fide are 
about four inches and I one above another. Moft of 
them about i ^ inch, fome an inch and * long, of the thick- 
nefsof a large Cocks -Spur, and very ftrait. Not meerly 
Cortical, as the Thome 's of Raffis, Gooseberry, and the like 5 
but Lignous or Woody, as thofe of Hawthorne. 
A BRANCH with a great WEN. It feems to be of 
the Hawthorne. The Branch, not above an inch in com- 
pafs 3 the Knot or Wen, ^Jmoft « of a foot. 'Tis tuberous 
and fpiked. So that it feems to be made by the cafual 
eruption of feveral fturdy Buds together, which having 
begun the draught of the Sap, it (till continued to fwell 
the Knot, after they were fain ofE And it is probable, 
that Animal- Wens are then produced, when two Or three 
fprigs of a Nerve bigger or more than ordinary, Ihooting 
into a part of a Mufcle, do thereby more invigorate k, 
and fo make it capable of a more copious nounfhment. 
Another tuberous Knot like the former. There is one like 
00 Lib. 2 . tne f e in t j ie ty[ufay m Cofyianum. (a) 
A little 
