426 A Treatise on 
Plat anus, J. B. I. 168. Acer major, Dodon. Pemp- 
tad . 840. It is a tall beautiful Tree. It grows in 
moift and mountainous Places, flowers in May, and 
its Fruit is ripe in September. 
In the Beginning of Spring, when this Tree is 
Full of Buds, before the Leaves are unfolded, Inci- 
fions being made into its Trunk, Branches or Roots, 
a fweet potulent Juice flows plentifully from them •, 
as alfo in Autumn, when the Leaves are fallen, and 
during the whole Winter-feafon. The Tafte of this 
Juice is very much the fame with that of Sugar. 
The Inhabitants of Canada, wounding the Trees to- 
wards the End of Winter, catch the Juice* and 
prepare from it Liquors to drink. They likewife 
boil it into a Sugar not unlike that of the Sugar- 
Cane. From eight Pounds of the Juice there re- 
mains one Pound of brown Sugar, which may be 
refined to Whitenefs in the fame Manner as com- 
mon Sugar. 
Of this Sugar well defpumated, with the Leaves 
of the Maiden-hair of Canada, they make a Syrup, 
which many People, even in France, greatly efteem 
for Diforders of the Breaft. 
Moreover, not only terreftrial Plants afford Su- 
gar, but alfo marine Plants. Olaiis Borrichius , in 
the Adi a Hafnienfia for the Years 1671 and 1672, 
makes mention of a certain Species of A!ga, found 
upon the Shore of Ifeland , which yields Sugar. 
There grows (fays he) in the Sea of Ifeland a Spe- 
<c cies of Alga, which no Author, that I know of, 
“ has defcribed *, nor yet is it much unlike the nar- 
<c row-leaved Alga of Glafs-makers, ( Alga angnfti- 
cc folia Vitriariorum , C. B.) except that its Leaf is 
<c yellowifh, and fomething fatter. When this 
<c Plant has been caft upon the Shore by the Waves 
<c of the Sea, and has lain there for fome Time, 
M the Heat of the Sun gradually draws forth its 
1 “ Juice, 
