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was publifhed, thought them, as Cafpar Bauhin did, 
of the lame genus, but different fpecies ; and there- 
fore he has mixt the obfervations on both together. 
For, immediately after mentioning the flaining of 
Cottons with this mellaginous fuccus, Sir Hans fays, 
that the gum is, in faculties and colour, like £um- 
arabic ; and that it is given internally in female ob- 
ftrudtions j and that the juice flains linen, which will 
not wafh out fuddenly : but he fays it is falfe, that 
they remain till they flower next year, as Du Tertre 
afferts. 
Sir Hans further quotes, from an anonymous Bra- 
filian author, that the apples ftain linen ; and that 
the gum is good to paint and write ; and the bark 
dyes yarn and veffels ferving for pots. 
And in another place he quotes De Laet, who 
compiled a general hiftory of America, and who 
likewife takes his quotation from an old Brafilian 
author, treating of the trees of Brafil, That the gum 
of the Acajou is ufed by painters ; the bark is ufed to 
dye cotton-yarn and earthen ware. Here I muft re- 
mark, tho’ foreign to our prefent purpofe, that in the 
original of Laet, what relates to the earthen ware 
runs thus : “ Et a faire de vaiffeaux de terre.” So 
that I believe it will appear more probable, that the 
bark of thefe trees was ufed rather to burn earthen 
ware veffels, than to dye them, as we find thefe 
earthen veffels were ufed to boil their victuals in. 
Thefe two quotations from Sir Hans Sloane con- 
firm the former, with regard to the ufe of the gum ; 
that is, its being fit, like gum-arabic, to be ufed for 
water-colours, and to make ink ; and that it is the 
juice of the apple that ftains, but this we find is not 
durable. 
Mr. 
