122 ~The Natural Eiftory ef Jamaica. 
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many Membranes dividing ic, and making it geniculated, and no Pith al- 
moft at all. It is of a fine green, fhining colour, and at its top comes our 
a white, round, oblong, {caly Head, like that of the tops of Afparagus, ¢- 
quifetum, or- the Funcus capitulis equifeti. C.B. 
It grows after rainy Seafons in thofe holes of the low Lands or Savaiiias, 
where water has ftood. 
LYN. Funcus aguaticus geniculatus, capitulis equifeti, minor. Cat. P.37. Fad; 
75 beg. 2. 
It isin every thing like the former, only not over one third of its bignefs 
or heighth. 
It grows with the former. 
LIV. Funcus aquaticus capitulis equifeti minimus. 
This has feveral whitifh fibrous Roots, and a very {mall Ruth about two 
Inches long. On the top comes a fcaly Head, between the light brown 
Scales of which, lie many {mall black Seeds. 
ft grew on the Banks of the Rio Cobre, under the Town of Saint Fago de 
laPega, on the fame fide of the River. 
LV. Funcus levis cAggowG. fecundus, vel juncus maximus frve feirpus major, 
C.B, Cat. p.37- Scirpus paluftris altiffimus. Tournefort. Inft. p. 528. Scirpus 
altifimus, Ej. El. bot. p.20. 
This grows plentifully in. the great Laguna, near Caymanes, and in the 
boggy Fens in feveral places of this Hland. | 
It is ufed to make bottoms of Chairs. 
If boiled with Wine it {tops Fluxes and the Cutamenia, 
Tied under the Arms People by them learn to Swim. Lugd. 
The Pith dilates Sores and Fiftulas. 
The Men go naked. The Women (in 38°. N. Lat. in that part of Calj- 
fornia called Nova Albion.) take Bull-Rufhes, and kemb them after the man- 
her of Hemp, and thereof make their loofe Garments, dc. Which being 
knit about their Middles, hangs down about their Hips, ibid. Sir Francis 
Drake, ap. Hakl. p. 441. and p.737. p. 3. 
They are faid by the Author of the Mexican Chronicle, to have grown in 
the Lake of that City, in the Carrizales of it, and to have made Beds for 
the new born Children to be wafh’d and receive their name on. Purckas, 
p- 1102. 
Chefts of Bull-Rufhes preferve the Wheat in Azores, Mandelflo, p. 221. 
LVI. Gramen Funcenm aquaticum geniculatum, culmo nudo cp folio non articu- 
lato. Cat. p.37. Tab.75, Fig. 3. 7 
This has feveral brown Strings, united in onc common tubcrous Root, 
from whence rifes a green articulated Stalk, it being inwardly divided into 
many Sections by feveral Diaphragm’s, growing {maller towards the top, 
within an Inch of which it has feveral long, flender, ferrugineous brown 
Heads, or Spikes making a fparfé Panicle. At the Root are {éveral graflie 
two or three Inches long Leaves. | 
It grows in the moifter parts of the Savannas after Rain. 
LVWl.. 7ypha paluftris major. C,B. Cat. p. 37. 
This grows on the brinks of Black River near Mr. Byndlofs’s Plantation, 
and on the frefh water Laguna, near the Caymanes. 
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