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116 The Natural Hifory of Jamaica, 
It grows in moft Savannas, particularly, in great abunda 
River Bridge, beyond two Mile Wood, on a left Haro enWacds, Black 
ing thither. g 
It has very {mall nourifhment, notwithftanding which Cattle eat itin dry 
and {carce times, when they grow very big in their Paunches with the great 
quantity of this GrafS, not being {atisfied with lictle. 
XXXVI. Gramen avenaceum fylvaticum, foliis latiffimis, locuftis lonzis non gu 
riftatis, glumis (padiceis. Cat. p. 35. Tab.73. Fig.2. Wild Oats. : 
This Grafs has a great many three or four Inches long Filaments, with 
lateral Hairs or Fibrils, by which it draws its Nourifhment, which being 
united in a roundifh Root, fend forth feveral Leaves incompaffing the Stalk 
and one another by their under parts, or Foot-Stalks, which are {triated, of 
a light brown colour, and about nine Inches long. The other part of the 
Leaf, leaving the Stalk, the higher it is, is the larger, thofe uppermoft be- 
ing ffx Inches long, and two broad, beginning narrow, by degrees: growing 
larger, and ending ina point, being ftriated, thin, hard, rough and graffie, 
with a middle Rib, eminent on the back fide. The Stalk is about a Foor 
anda half high, having below two very fhort Joints, is branched out abour 
a Foot from the Ground into feveral Branches, whofe Twigs have feveral 
half Inch long naked Lecu/fe, fticking to them alternatively without. Petioli, 
haying a blackifh Chaff or Glwma, in which is a long roul’d up Membrane, 
looking like,Oats or Corn. ,,.° 
_» It grows every: wherein,the inland high fhady Woods. 
Tt is thought to be,the,moft nourifhing and fatning Grafs. for Cattle in 
the whole Ifland, and is counted as good for that purpofe as Oats... 
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XXXVII. Cyperus longus odoratus, panicula [parfa, fpicis ferigoforibus viridi- 
(f bus. Cat.p. 35. Tab.84. Fig.1.. An Acoras:Brafilienfis aromaticus minor, Ca- 
7 picatinga, aliis Facare catinga Pifonis. Bob. hift.Ox. part: 3. p. 246 ? 
This had a long, roundifh, frequently jointed Root, reddifh on its ott- 
fide, and whitifh within, very odoriferous, creeping under the Surface of 
the Ground, and making a large Turfe or Tuft, from whence rife up many 
Leaves triangular, carinated, with an eminent fharp cutting back, of a very 
dark green colour, larger, but otherwife in fhape, cc. exactly the fame with 
the others of this Kind. From among thefe Leaves rifes feveral triangulae 
folid,-dark green, firiated Stalks, two or three Foot high, having a rufhy Pith, 
and.at its top feveral fmaller Leaves, but of the fame fhape with thofe.ar 
bottom, ftanding under the Panicle, which is very ‘{parfe, having, befides 
fome fhorter Spikes, a great many. ftanding on Foot-Stalks, above fmall 
Leaves, fome whereof are a Foot high; each of the Spikes being long, 
very fimall, roundith, of a pale green colour, made up of feveral green 
Scales, between which, and the Stalk, lies the Seed, which is oblong, and 
of a pale ycllowifh colour. ee 
It.grows by the Rivers fides in Famaica, and moft of the Caribes.. «_. 
If it be Pifo’s Capicatinga, he tells us, it is not only given by its felf, or 
mixt with other things to cut cold peccant humours, but is likewife ufed 
againft Poyfons, whence may be gathered that ‘tis hot intenfly, and of a thin 
confiftence. 
XXXVIII. Cyperus rotundns, panicula [parfa, fpicis firigofis ferrugineis. Cat. 
p. 35. Tab. 74. Fig. 2. | 
This had a round tuberous Root, as big as a large Hafel Nut, having — 
many fibers at its bottom, of about an Inch long. It is of a folid {ubflance, 
within odoriferous, and aromatick to fmell and taft. “Tis covered over ae 
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