Of Plants. 
Part II 
\ A Pipe made of a hollow BRANCH, and twilled into a 
loofe Knot, in which one part of the Branch is incorpora- 
ted with the other. 
Two large BRANCHES incorporated in the form of a 
St. Andrews Crofs. 
Two leffer, growing together in the fame form. 
Two BRANCHES growing together in the form of 
our Saviours Crofs. 
Tis probable, That thefe were bound together ( as may 
be any other ) when they were young, and with the 
Barque pared off, where contiguous 5 and fo, by a kind of 
ingrafting, became coalefcent. 
A PALMETO LEAF. Palm* humilis folium. Tis a 
yard and I long. Hath about a hundred and forty Plates, 
feventy on each fide the middle Rib, whereupon they are 
all folded. Which Rib alfo diftributes it felf into Plates 
towards the top of the Leaf. The Plates are of feveral 
bredths from i an inch to an inch and \ Moft of them 
are now broken or torn afunder. But originally they 
make all one entire piece, rudely imitated by a folding 
Fan. 
Thefe are the Plates, which both the Arabians and bidi- 
ans make ufe of to write upon, by Impreffion with a 
Style. 
Part of another fort of PALM-LEAF. 'Tis * of a yard 
long, and at one end feven inches broad : but rolled up, 
and with the ends of the Fibers unwoven, fo as to look 
like a Broom. Of a wonderful fubftance, in fome places ? 
of an inch thick, and very denfe and ftubborn work. 
Confifteth of great and lefTer flat Fibers $ and fmall round 
ones 5 fomewhat alike as in the Palm-Net, whereof pre- 
fently. 
The Leaves of fome Palms, are ufed, where they grow, 
for making of Garments, and thatching of Houfes. The 
Country-People Tap the Wine-Palm about two feet above 
the ground, and of the Liquor which runs from it, and 
which they catch in Earthen VefTels, they make an excel- 
OOThevetus l ent Wine called Mignol , like the White Champane. {a) 
The fruitful kinds flourifh chiefly mJUgypt and Syria: as 
alfo in the hoteft parts of the Indies • and in the 
Canary-IJlands : amongft which , there is one called , 
The 
