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A Voyage to JAMAICA. 
Tab. 9. 
Tab, 10, 
Fig, 1. 
Boats in that Councry. Bull-rufhes are now ufed by fome for floating 
Bodies. 
Cyperus maximus panicula minus [parfa ferruginea capitulis compactis crafftoribus. 
Cat.pl. Fam. p. 35. 
This has a great many rough three-cornered grafly cutting Leaves, about 
three Foot long, and near an Inch broad at Root where broadeft, and whence 
they decreafe, ending in a point, and all of them make a large tuft round the 
Surface of the Earth where it grows. From among the middle of them rife three- 
cornered Stalks as big as ones Finger, folid, and filled with a ruthy fungous 
Pith, about three Foot high, on the top of the Stalks under the Spikes, 
{tand two Foot long Leaves, tho there are many others fhorter, being of like 
make with the Leaves at bottom. Above thefe ftand feveral Spikes on feveral 
three-cornered Petioliof diverfe lengths, as in others of this kind, the longeft 
being of Six Inches, and fome of them being branched into Two or Three 
other Petioli, all of which have fome Ferrugineous {caly, round, pointed 4- 
pices, or {maller Spikes, made up of Ferrugineous Scales lying on one another, 
{ticking clofe to the tops of the Petioli which make the Panicle. The 
Seed is brownifh, red, fhining and Triangular. 
It grew near Bridgetown in Barbados. 
Gramen cyperoides panicula conglomerata @ plurimis [picis cinereis conftante. 
Cat. pl. Fam. p. 36. 
_ This had a roundifh Tuberous Root which had many Fibers as thofe of a 
Leek, it was not Odoriferous but covered over with feveral dry Skins, and 
from thence rofe feveral Four or Five Inches long, narrow Leaves of a grafS 
green colour, like others of this kind; the Sralk was flender three-cornered, 
about a Foot and a half high, on the top of which {tood {everal {mall Spikes 
cluftered together without any Foot-{talks into one Head, each of them 
being made up of many Gray Scales between which lay roundifh edged Seeds 
of a reddifh colour; under this Head or Panicle flood fome fhort Leaves, 
as in others of this kind. 
It grew in Barbados, but where I do not remember. 
Ricinus Americanus tenniter divifo folio Breyn. cent. 1. p. 116. Cat. pl. 
Fam.p.40. Manfanilla de las avellanas para purgar de Oviedo, lib.10. cap. 4. 
Ben Magnum Medicorum vulgo Wormmus, p.187. Avellana Purgatrix, Contant. 
p.t. An Caftanea purgatrix, Muf. Mofc. p.r54? | 
Spanifh Phyfick Nuts. Ifound thefe in Mr. Draxe’s Plantation in Barbados, 
where they were planted in a Garden : they agreed as to every thing with 
Reese: Defcription and Figure; they iad Flowers of a fine Scarlet 
colour. 
They were put out of ufe by Mechoacan, Frag. When Hifpaniola was firkt 
difcovered, the Zadians ufed this much for Purging, thenthe Spaniards through 
neceffity ufed the fame, not without hazard of Life. They purge Phlegm 
and Choler violently up and down, their vehemence is taken off with roatt- 
ing. They are good for the Colick, and they iuige being put into Gly- 
fters. Hot in the third, and Dry in the tecond Degree, Dof. a 3f. ad 3]. 
Tofted. Oviedo iays one was killed in spaiw with holf of one; and yet Nine 
did not work in Ffpanicla: they killd fevera: at iirlt, his own Children were 
almoft dead, had they not been vomirec with Oil. 
The Fruit is an cafier iurger thai ch: Common-Phyfick-Nut, the Flower 
dryed and powdered, and given to iiait a Crown weight purges Hydropick- 
Water plentifully, Dw Zertre. 
Convolvulus exoticus annuus foliis myriophyllé millefolis aquatici flore fangnie 
aco. Mor, hift. p.20. Cate pl. Fam. p. 58. 
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