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thole large white Pieces to which we give the Name 
of fiaky 5 but the fineft of all is fuch as is colle&ed 
from artificial Incifions, in which little Straws, &c. 
are purpofely placed in fitch a manner, as that the 
flowing Juice may concrete upon them, and form 
thofe long, white, cylindrical, perforated Pieces, 
which are fo much valued. 
This juice is fecreted in the largeft Quantity, be- 
twixt Noon and Evening. In the Night it is con- 
dens’d, if the Seafon is dry, otherwife the Manna is 
fpoil’d : They fcrape off the fmall with wooden 
Knives, early in the Morning, and gather the larger 
Flakes ; both which are afterwards dried upon clean 
Paper in the Sun, till they flick no longer to the 
Fingers ; and the different Sorts are then carefully 
pack’d up for Ufe and Exportation. 
XV. Cyanus Foliis radicalibus partim integrity 
partim pinnatis , BraElea Calycis ovali , Flore 
fulphureo ; per Albert. Haller, Frof Anat . 
& Bot. Gottingenf. R . S. Ang. Sf Suec. 
S. defcriptus . 
Vide Tab. IV. 
Read April 
1744. 
26. 
R 
AD IX perennis eft, quam eruere 
nolui, ut parcerem plants, qus femen 
nondum dediflet. 
Folia ad terram conferta, varia : virentia omnia, & 
firmiufcula, cum aliqua, fed brevi & fparfa lanugine. 
Eorum alia limplicia funt, longo petiolo, elliptica 
3 ianceolata 
