266 Of Petrify d Plants, Part III. 
{lender at the Stalk or Bafe 3 turbinated next the other end 3 
umbellated at the top of all, or depreffed round about the 
place of the flower 3 and of a yellowifh tawny colour. 
A STONE like a petrify d DAMASCENE-PLUM. As 
that of a black colour, and of the fame Figure 3 fo far as 
to lhew the feat both of the Stalk and Flower. 
The Great petrify'd STONE of an exotick PLUM. As 
one would think, both from the figure of it, and the pro- 
duction of Fibers by the length, round about it, (as in 
many Indian Plum-Stones) very apparent efpecially, near 
the top. The granulated part of it , being turn d to a 
foft opacous Stone 3 the Fibers into pellucid Flint. 
A black Stone flgurd like the STONE of ( a Pracockr 
Plum) an Aprecoc^. 
A petrify d NVX VOMICA, fc. that of the Shops. As I 
call it from its figure exactly refpondent 3 being round, 
and flat, on one fide a little Concave, on the other fome- 
( a ) MuCMe- what Convex. In Aldrovandus {a) we have the Figure of a 
tail. petrify 'd Nux Methel Officinorum * but under the miftaken 
Title of Caftanites. As alfo the exact figure of a petrify 'd 
Caftanea Purgatrixj but this too with the falfe Name of 
Anacardites. The fame Author reprefents likewife a moil 
exact figure of a petrify 'd Melopepon. 
A large JUDI AC STONE ( Lapis Judaicus) in the 
form of a PEAR. ? Tis an inch and half long 3 ftalked like 
a Pear 3 Next the ftalk flender 3 turbinated upwards, to 
an inch in Diametre 3 and umbellated at the top, or depref- 
fed as a Pear, round about the flower. Adorned alfo round 
about with fmall tuberated Stria which run from end to 
end. This Species not well flgur d by any Author. 
ANOTHER of a fomewhat like Figure , but much 
fmaller. Belt exprefTed by the lean: of the four in Boe- 
W be Gem. t i m% (£) 
& Lap. La. ^ THIRD like an ALMOND 3 both of the fame big- 
nefs, and (hape, oval at one end, pointed at the other, and 
fomewhat flat. Bejler hath one or two like this, which he 
calls Petrified Almonds. 
A FIFTH, like an AKORNF, being of a like thicknefs 
at both ends. Another of the fame. This fort particularly 
called Phoenecites. 
A SIXTH, like an OLIVE-STONE 3 being more ob- 
long 
