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prettily waved by the tranfverfe eruption of feveral fmall 
fprigs. 
A fuppofed naturally entire RING of Wood, almoft 
in the fhapeof a Womans Head-Roll, but not fo big as 
now worn, about four or five inches Diametre. Wor- 
miuA alfo mentions one in his Mufoaum like this, but fome- 
what bigger. 
PITT-WOOD. Lignum faffile. Colour’d like that of 
the Cedar, but a little brighter. Smooth, light and foft 5 
yet hath no confpicuous pores. Hath neither tail nor 
fimell. Whence this was dig’d, is uncertain. But 1 nLan- 
cajhire , and fome other places here in England.', the people 
find the Bodies of large Trees at a good depth under¬ 
ground, and which the poorer fort burn, being fplinter’d, 
to fave Candles. 
A BRANCH of a Tree, by fome called The COCK- 
SLUR Tree. Perhaps more properly, Oxyacantha Ameri¬ 
cana, or the AMERICAN HAWTHORNE. I meet with 
it no where deferibed or mention’d. This Branch is an 
Eln long, without any appendent Branches. An inch 
Diametre. Of the folidity of Hawthorne-Wood. Encom- 
palTed with great Thornes alternately placed on every fide, 
fo afeending, as every two Thornes on the fame fide are 
about four inches and I one above another. Molt of 
them about 1 ; inch, fome an inch and I long, of the thick- 
nefs of a large Cocks-Spur, and very ftrait. Not meerly 
Cortical, as the Thornes of Rufous, Goofeberry , and the like 5 
but Lignous or Woody, as thofeof Hawthorne. 
A BRANCH with a great WEN. It feems to be of 
the Hawthorne. The Branch, not above an inch in com- 
pafs j the Knot or Wen, almoft? pf a foot. ’Tis tuberous 
and fpiked. So that it feems to be made by the cafual 
eruption of feveral iturdy Buds together, which having 
begun the draught of the Sap, it ftill continu’d to fwell 
the Knot, after they were fain off And it is probable, 
that Animal-Wens are then produced, when two or three 
fprigs of a Nerve bigger or more than ordinary, fhooting 
into a part of a Mufcle, do thereby more invigorate it, 
and fo make it capable of a more copious nounfhment. 
Another tuberous Knot like the former. There is one like 
h'k - 2 ‘ thefe m the Mufceum Cofpianum. (a) 
A little 
