Part II. 
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PART II- 
Of Plants. 
Sect. I. 
OF TREES. 
GHAP. I. 
Of WOODS , BRANCHES , and LEAVES. 
A Picce of LIGNUM ALOE, with its own GUM 
growing upon it. Given by the Honorable 
Mr. Boyle. The tail of the Gum is perfectly like 
to that of the Wood. The Colour, like that of the pureft 
and moft lucid Aloe, called Succotrina: for with the light 
reflected, it looks almoft like Pitch ; with the light tranf- 
mitted, it gliders like a Carbuncle ; powder’d , it is of a 
reddifh yellow. This, or forne other like Aromatic 4 Gum, 
the. Aloe of the Hebrews : whence the other, from fimili- 
tude, hath its Name. 
The Tree is deferibed by Linfchoten 5 (a) about the M L ‘ b -1 
bignefs o, the Olive. This Wood is the Heart of the Tree , c ' 1& ' 
the outward part, commonly called the Sap of a Tree, 
being whitijh andToft. ’Tis faid by Sir Philiberto Vernal ti, 
I ly Refident in Java major , to yield a Milk fo a) Phil, 
hurtful, that if any of it lights in the Eyes, it caufeth blind- 'W- n. 
nels 5 or fcabbmefs, if on any other part of the Body. But 
tins, doubtlefs, is to be underftood neither of the Heart 
^Lit only ot the Barque: there being no 
Milk-Veirels in either of the former, that I remembj, in 
any Tree, by me obferv’d. 
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