26 'The'Liv^ of Mr. RAY. 
Lowthorp\. Abridgement, Vol. II, 
p. 682, Among Mr. Ray% 
Obfervations, I find fome deferv- 
ing Notice, not publifhed with 
the reft, viz. T^hat the Sap of any 
‘Tree., rimning down the Side of the 
Tree, or dropping long on one Place, 
will precipitate a Kind of White 
Coagulum, or Jelly ; which may be 
well conceived to be the Part which, 
every Year, between Bark and 
Tree, turns to Wood, attd of which 
the Leaves and Fruit are made. 
And it feems to precipitate more 
when' the Tree is jufi ready to 
put out Leaves, and begins to ceafe 
dropping, than at its Firfl Bleeds 
ing. 
A Second Obfervation is. That the 
Sap afcends, ttot only between the Bark 
and Tree, but by all the Pores of the 
Wood, (which they had demonftrated 
in 
