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Other accidents that frequently attend ic^ which becaufe fo much 
commended by F/i,7v in in which they are common, I 
think ought much more to be noted in this : And fuch are the 
Nodofitks called Brufcum and Mollufcum^ to be found in A[h as 
well as Mapk^ which when cut, Oiew a curled and twining grain 5 
the Brufcum thick and intricate, the MoUufcum being ftreaked in a 
more dired courfe. With the MoUufcum of Apj there is a whole 
Clofet wainfcoted, at the much Honored Mr. Stonofs of IVatling^ 
/c;2Park, the grain of the panes being curioufly waved like the 
Gamahe's of Achats, And at the Wordiipful Mr. of the 
Paridi of Ij-fJtn^ the Brufcum of an old Afh is fo wonderfully fi- 
gured, that in a Dining-table made of it (without the help of 
fanfie) you have exadly reprefented the figure of the Fidi, we 
commonly call a Jack.-, though endeavoring to mend^ they have 
fomwhat marr'd it by Art : and in fome other Tablets the figures 
of zVnicorn^ and an old Man from the navel upwards, but nei- 
ther of thefe fo plain as the former. 
81. Jacobus Gaffarellu^^ amongft his unheard of Curiofities\ 
tells us of a Tree found in Holland^ which being cut to pieces by a 
wood-cleaver, had in one part of it the figure of a Chalice^ in 
another that of a Priefts Albe^ in another that of a Stole ; and in 
a word, there were reprefented very near all the ornaments he^ 
longing to a Priefl : which relation if true, fays he, it muft needs 
be confeft, that thefe figures could not be there cafually or by 
chance ; and indeed 'tis very hard to think, howfo many things 
pertinent to the fame office-, fliould thus meet together without 
fome defign of Nature, However, till I am better fatisfied of the 
truth of the thing, or convinced by the fight of fome other fuch 
Curiofitji^ I cannot afford to think ours (being altogether inde- 
pendent) more thm n\G€r accidents, 
82. Befide thefe unufual accidentsof whole 7*r^^5,or their Trunks-, 
there are fome alfo that have happened to their upper branches 
and leaves, whereof the former are fomtimes fafciated., and the 
latter flriped. In willows^ and fome other of the fofter woods, 
the upper moft boughs are commonly fafciated^ but the beft of the 
kind I ever yec faw, was the top-branch of Afi^ which I met 
with at Bifjeter.) not only fa/ciated., but moft uniformly wreathed 
two or three times round. And there is a good example of this 
^ Nat. Hill- lib. 16. cap. 16 ■ * Llnheard of CurioCcies, chap.'^. 
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