Vegetable Staticks. z y 
in the cool room. Upon making an eftimate 
of the quantity perfpired off a fquare inch of 
this plant, in 1 2 hours day, it comes but to 
ttt of a cubick inch 5 on the 18 th day of 
Mayyn hen by far itsgreateft perfpiration was j 
for on feveral other days it was much lels. 
A diary of the Aloe Africana Caulefcens 
foliis fpinofis, maculis ah utraque parte al- 
bicantibus not at is, Commelini hort. Amft. 
commonly called the Carolina Aloe. It 
was a large plant of its kind. It food 
in a glafs-cafe, which had a South afpebf 
without a fire. 
1726 
Weight 
3 
Weight 
2 
Weight 
*3 
tr 
at 6 
at 12 
< n > 
at 6 
r» 
*-t 
May. 
Morn, 
pd. ou. 
3 
Noon. 
3 
Night. 
3 
18 
4.1 6 
35 
4 1 2 i 
36 
41 3 
3°i 
19 
+* 
28 \ 
40 14 j 
40 52 
30 
20 
40 I2i 
40 10 1 
!3* 
40 8~ 
294 
21 
40 
27 
2 5 i 
40 6J 30 
4 ° 
28 
22 
40 6 
40 55 
29 
40 4 
2 7 t 
23 
41 10 
244 
4* 6 i 
r 
4 1 S 
2 7 j 
This evening promiC 
ingfomerain, he fee the 
pot out to receive a little., 
and then wiping the 
leaden furface of the poc 
dry> he fee it into the 
g a fs- cafe again. 
Now the pot broke 8 
and hindered any fur-? 
ther obfervatiofls. 
We may obferve^ that this Aloe incrcafed 
in weight moft nights., and perfpired moft in 
the moaning. A diary 
