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Initial, qualitative results for the primary and secondary pyrolysis of biomass and related compounds are shown, using the flame-pyrolysis, direct free-jet, molecular-beam, mass-spectrometric sampling system described in the companion paper (Part I). Time resolved pyrolysis data are shown for wood. Integrated primary pyrolysis spectra are shown for cellulose, lignin, wood, oil shale, coal, and polyethylene specimens, flash-heated in one-atmosphere, 900 degrees C steam-argon. Our spectra for cellulose and lignin are compared with several reported in the literature using analytical pyrolysis and other techniques. Secondary cracking spectra of ethane, n-butane and cellulose are shown illustrating the ability of this technique to separate primary from secondary processes. Finally, the present technique is compared with more conventional analytical pyrolysis mass spectrometry approaches.