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which is divided into Two Spikes ftanding like Horns, after the manner of 
Gramen i{chemon bicorne, Each of them has very much long, foft, very white 
Down, or Zomentum much finer than Cotton, and fometimes onc may per- 
ceive among them fome few Coarfer Hairs which I take to be Arifte, 
This vaties in being fometimes of a reddifh or purplith colour, which I fup- 
pofe proceeds only from the Age of the Plant. 
It grew under the top of the Hill or Mountain making the Ifland of 
Nieves, and near the Angels, on the other fide of the River, as well as in {es 
veral other placcs of the Ifland of Fameaica. 
The /ndians told Pifo that the Roots of this beaten, and given with any 
convenient Liquor, was a proper Remedy to expel Poifon. 
Gramen avenaceum, panicula minus fparfa, glumis alba fericea lanugine obduttis. 
Cat. pl. Fam. p. 35. 
The uppermoit Joint of this GrafS had a Six Inches long graffie Leaf, 
which by its under part enclofed the Culmus beneath, this Joint was about a 
Foot long, by which one may guef$ that the whole Graf was very high ; the 
Panicle was at top, being about Four Inches long, not very fparfe, made up 
of many Petiolz, or Spikes ftanding round, or taking their original alterna- Tb. 14: 
tively without any order from the top of the Culmus; each of thele Petiolj Fig. 2. 
had faftened to them by very fimall and fhort Foot-f{talks, feveral reddifh, ob- 
Jong, pointed Grains or Secds, fomething of the fhape of Oats, lying be- 
tween two Giume or chafly Membranes, which were on the out fide covered 
over with a pretty long filken Lanngo, Tomentum, or Cotton, which diftin- 
guifhes it {ufficiently from others near akin to it. 
I found it in Madera, or one of the Caribes, and if 1 remember right ic 
was in the Ifland Nieves. 
Urtica racemofa, fruticofa, anguftifolia, frucin tricocco. Cat. pl. Fam. p. 38. 
This has a cornered woody Stalk covered with brown at bottom, but at 
top green Bark, having many fierce Hairs on them, and Leaves coming out 
alternatively, firft on one fide, then on another. They have half an Inch 
Foot-ftalks, with many ftrong Hairs, the Leaves themfe!ves being Three 725. 16, 
Inches long, and not an Inch broad near the round Bafe where broadeft, Fig. 1. 
from thence they decreafe to their tops, where they end in a point, being 
deeply ferrated on their Edges, and having little Hair on them. ‘Towards 
the tops of the Branches come Ex alis foliorum an Inch and a half long 
Strings, to which ftick the Fruit, which ar firft is very fall and tricoccous, 
growing larger and rough, with long Hairs on its out-fide, each of the three 
round fides containing one large {triated roundifh Seed. 
TY found it in one of the Caribe Iflands, and cannot pofitively affirm it to 
be ftinging, but believe irto be that of Pzfo. 
Piper longum felio nervofo, latiori, Cy tenniori, atroviridi. Cat. pl. Fam.p. 45. 
This is in every thing like what in Famaica is called Spanifh Elder, only the 
Leaves are thinner, broader (efpecially at Bafe,) of a darker green colour, 
having their Ribs lefs apparent than it, and being fmooth, otherwife as to 
manner of growing, cc. “Tis exactly the fame. 
I found it in one of the Caribes. 
Amaranthoides frutico{um, foliis longis, anguftis, fubtus miveis. Cat. pl. Famp. 48. 
An Polygonum ereitum lignofum rorifmarini foliis Virginianum. D. Banifter, 
Pluk. Alm.p 302? 
The Stalk of this Plant was ftreight, woody, covered with a {mooth, red- 
difh brown Bark ; at every Inch or two having Leaves greater and lefler, a- Zab. 7. 
bout 1,2, or3, the largeft having a very fhort Foot-ftalk, being about two Mg. 3. 
Inches long, and three quarters of an Inch broad in the middle where broad- 
eit, from the Foot-ftalk increafing to the middle, and thence decreafing and 
ending in a point, being {mooth, dark green on the upper fide, and ony 
white 
