earn mee eeren enter eRe SE EES 
This is in every thing the fame with the former, only larger and 
longer. ‘The Leaves are very like thofe of Pinks in fhape, their under parts 
are green, and tops reddifh. 
it is to be found on the Boughs and Trees on the Red Hills on Guanabea 
Road, and near Mr. Barnes's Houfe there. | 
XI. Vifcum Caryophylloides tenniffimum, e ramulis arborum mufci in modum deo 
pendens, foliis pruine inftar candicantibus, flore tripetalo, femine filamentoof. Cat. 
.77. Tab, 122. Fig. 2, 3. 
The Stalk of this moffie Planteis about the bignefs of a thread, confifting 
of a thin Skin, whitifh, as if covered with a hoar Froft, having withia 
that along, tough, black Hair, like a Horfe Hair. Thefe Stalks (many of 
them being ufually together) flick on any Branch fuperficially. by the mid- 
dle, and fend down on each fide fome of the fame Hairs or Stems, very often 
a yard long, hanging down on both fides from the Branches of the Trees 
they adhere to, being curled, or turning and winding one within ano- 
ther, and making the fhew of an old Man's Beard (whence the name) 
or as if they were made to climb, which I never faw they did. Thefe 
Stalks are branch’d, and the Branches which are two or three Inches long, 
are fet with two or three Inches long, roundifh, white Leaves, covered over 
as it were with a hoar Froft. ‘The Flowers come at the ends of theft 
Branches, have three Petala, and a Sced, with Seed-Veflel, ce. like the 
others of this Kind. 
It grows on the Branches of the Ebonics, or other Trees in the Savanna's 
frequently, and looks very oddly. 
It is usd to pack up any thing in, which otherways may eafily be 
broken, as Cotton is fometimes made ufe of with us. : 
The inward ftrong black Hairs of this Moffes Stalks, are made ufe of by 
the Birds called Watchipickets, for making their curioufly contriv’d Netts, 
hanging on the Twigs of Trees. . : 
This, by lying in the Air and Weather, or being by other means cleared 
of its outward Skins, has another appearance, whence Dr. Plukenet calls it 
Cufcuta Americana fuper arbores fe diffundens; Cufeuta trichodes lendiginofa, Gc. 
as I have obferv’d, p. 221. of my. Catalogue. 
XIE, Ananas, Chrift. Acoft, Cat. p. 77- Fan-polo-mie feu Ananas fructus. 
Boym. lit.G. Thevenot.p. 21. Pine-Apples of Dampier. 
This Fruit is planted and usd by way of defert, (having a very fine 
flayour and raft) all over the hot Weft-Jndies, either raw, or when not yet 
ripe, candied, and is accounted the moft delicious Fruit thefe places , or 
the World affords, having the flavour of Rasberries, Strawberries, ec. 
but they {eem to me not to be fo extremely pleafant, but too fower, fet- 
ting the Teeth on edge very fpeedily. a 
The Fruit ripened by the Sun is lefs efteem’d chan that ripen’d in a 
Chamber. Pifo. 
It is clear'd of its outward Skin when ripe, and cut into flices, and fo ca- 
ten, the middle fibrous or woody part being thrown away. 
It is known when ripe by the colour of the cuft of Leaves at top, which 
then turn yellow, and will eafily come off with the leaft pulling. 
This Tuft, as well as young Sprouts or Succors from the old ones fides, 
are planted in any hot Soil, and feldom mifs to profper. 
Lhe flices are foak’d in Canary to take off the fharpnefs which com- 
monly otherways inflames the Throat. and then they are eaten if the Wine 
in which they are foak’d be drank it inflames the Throat likewife, Pifo. But 
1 never found this which Pifo {peaks of. 
| It 
The Natural Fiffory of Jamaica. IQ! 
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