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The Springs here near the Shote, were overflowed by the Sea and brackith 
which gave many the Flux; fo when Befiegers (at Ormus) came to Brine 
brackifh Water they dyed of Fluxes, Monox, Purchas, 1798. and fix hundred 
of the Earl of Cumberland’s Fleet dyed of the Bloody-Flux at Porto Rico, Pur- 
chas, 1149. Layfield, 1167. which likely came from the fame Caufe. 
Plants I obferved at Barbados, which I did not take notice of 
in the other Caribbe Iflands, were, 
Filix non ramofa minor, canle nigro, furculis raris, pinnulis anguftis dentatis ran 
ris brevilus acutis fubtus niveis.. Cat. pl. Fam. p.20. Where may be {een its 
otherSynonymous Names, and reference made to the Authors where it is 
already graved. 7 12: 7 . 
This has a folid Root, fmall, and having {everal Scales towards the top, 
covered with a Ferrugineous Mofs, and many Filaments and hairy Fibers be- 
low, whereby to draw its Nourifhment; it is of a dark Brown colour, from 
Whence rife many Leaves, having blackifh red fhining Stalks, for the moft 
part Triangular, rifing a Foot high, at about Eight Inches from the Root 
having Twigs at about half an Inch diftance,. fometimes oppofite to one ano- 
ther, fometimes aiternatively, each Twig being about one Inch Jong, and ve- 
ry narrow ; the Piznzle are fhort,\ very narrow, fharp, and leave a defect be- 
cween each other, on the upper fide, being of a dark green colour, and 
below having a White Meal’ all over it, making it extremely pleafant to 
look on. : 
it grew out of the Rocks in the fhady Inland parts of Famaica, and in 
Barbados, | pie ) ; 
Filix non ramofa minor, caule nigro, farculis raris, pinnulis latis dentatis {ubtus 
niveis, Cat. pl. Fam, p. 2X. , | 
) 
This had Roots and Stalks exactly like the preceding, and was for Magni- Tab.7, Fig.t. 
tude the fame, the chief difference was'in the Leaves or Piznule, which were 
rounder and broader, otherwife the fame, for they were covered over with a 
White Farina as it. Perhaps this may be only a variety of the former. 
f found it in Barbados and Nevis. | 
Cyperus maximus panicula, [parfa, foliacea. . Cat.pl. Fam. p. 35: ) 
This was in the Stalk Triangular, filled with a Pich like Rufhes, and ex- 
actly the fame with other Cyperas Grafles, only it was much larger in every 
part, and in lieu of a Panicle, its Head was made up of {caly Spikes Sparfe, 
at the top of this was only fomewhat {maller Leaves than were at bottom, that 
is, there were firft feveral larger leaves ftanding under the Panicle, from the 
middle of which rofé many Triangular, f{mall, and fhorter Foot-f{talks, which 74. 8. 
at top, inftead of Spikes, had nothing difcernable. but fmall Leaves, from 
the middle of which went other {maller Petioli, on whofe top were very {mall 
and reddifh Leaves, efpecially on their under parts, fomething, or very like 
the Defcription and Icon of Papyrus ex ABgypto Salmafio miffa. Bod. & Stapel. 
Not. in Theoph. p. 432. | | 
-‘I gathered it in Barbados, in flanding Water, a little out of Bridgetown. 
Whether this be the {ame with other Cyperi, before their Spikes come out, or 
~tnats Panicle be like that of Papyrus Nilotica of $B. which if Cefalpinus’s 
Defcription:-be true it imitates, I cannot tell, but am fure I never in all the 
Plants I chane’d to fee of it, aw any other Spikes than thefe. Leaves. 
Gom. cap. 163. Says that in Pers they ufed Barks or little Boats made 
of Ruthes or Straw, which I f{uppofe may have been a fort of this, which 
was uicd for that purpofe by the Egyptians. And Blafco Nunnez, after be- 
ing taken, complaining of it, “twas anfwered that it was the only way of 
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