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fiance, Size, and Shape, according to the 
different Age, Situation, and Nature of the 
Soil wherein they grow. Were they in- 
filled, and drank when they are frefh and 
green, they would much affedt the Body, 
efpecially the Hands; for being Narcotic, 
they would occafion a trembling and con- 
vulfive Motion in the Nerves ; but they lofe 
this bad Quality in the drying and rolling, 
which exprefifes that clammy , yellowijh , acid 
Juice y which caufes thefe Tremors ; yea, fo 
corrofive fometimes is this Juice, that it ex- 
coriates the Hands of the Roajlers and Rol - * 
lers. 
The Branches are thick befet with Flowers , 
one or two together, much like our wild 
Rofes, an Inch or better in Diameter, having 
little Smell, compofed of fix round, hollow 
Petala , or Leaves, Handing on a Foot Stalk 
of an Inch long, which from a (lender Be- 
ginning, infenfibly grow larger, and end in 
an uncertain Number, commonly five or fix, 
of fmall, round Squame , or Leaves, which 
ferve inftead of the Calix. Thefe Flowers 
continue, growing till late in the Winter; 
one or two whereof are generally fick, 
fhrunk, and fattfhort of the Largenefs, and 
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