The Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 105 
ee 
Pod, {mall, round, green, and ending in a point exactly like the Pods of the 
aforefaid Plants. 
This grew on the Banks of the Rio-Cobre below the Town juft by the 
water-fide, onthe other fide of the River, and on aGullies fide near Colo- 
nel Cope’s Stables, in his Plantation by Guanaboa. 
VIL Lberis humilior annua Virginiana ramofor. Morif. Cat. p. 80. Tab. 123. 
Fig. 3. An Mexixguilitl feu nafturtinm iberifve Indica. Nicremb. p. 316 ? 
Thlalpi Virginianum foliis iberidis amplioribus cy ferratis. Tourn:f. El. p. 182. 
Tnft. p.213. Pepper-Grafs. 
__ This has a white Inch long fingle Root, with fibers from it, drawing its 
Nourifhment. The firft Leaves are {pread round on the furface of the 
Earth, being about an Inch long, half of which is Foot-Stalk, and reddifh, 
with three or four deep Lacinia or jags. At its beginning, towards the end 
of the Foot-Stalk, being Oval, half an Inch broad, indented about the 
edges, fmooth, and of a dark green colour. The Stalk is round, whitifh 
green, rifing to a Foot and an half high, having longer, narrower, and 
deeplier jagged Leaves fet thick about it without any order, the Branches 
alfo come out frequently on all hands, round which ftand many Flowers, 
on the eighth part of an Inch long Foot-Stalks, being very f{mall, white, 
and tetrapetalous, with green Stamina in the middle. After thefe follows a 
{hort Pod, round, with a notch at the further end, containing one oblong, 
reddifh Seed in each Arch or Cell of the Pod. 
tt grows in all the Caribe Iflands, and in this Ifland in moft of the inland 
places. 
The firft Leaves being of a pleafing biting taft, fupply the place of all 
the Crefles in Salleting. 
VII. Eruca duodecima, ive maritima Italica filiqua hafta Cufpidi fimili. CB. 
Cat. p. 81. Crambe maritima foliis eruce, capfula enfpidata. Tournef, El, p. 180. 
Crambe maritima foliis eruce anguftioribus frudtn haftiformi. Ejufd. Inft.p.ri2. 
An cadem foltis latioribus. Ej, ib ? 
I could not obferve any difference between this Flant here, and that 
growing on the Mediterranean, if not in the colour of the Flower, which is 
white, but I look on that as only a variety. |» 
It grew on Houfe Cayos, a {mall Ifland off of Port-Royal. 
Four Ounces of the diftilled water, taken'warm in the morning, helps 
Colick and Nephritick pains. Lugd. Mycon. 
It Purges powerfully, but the Roots are ufelefs. Ang. 
1X. Veronica fruticofa erecta dulcis, hexangulart caule, flore dilute caruleo. 
Cat. p81. Tab. 108. Fig. 2. Another fort of Wild-Liquorice, or Sweet- 
Weed. 
This has a {trong Root, -divided into fmaller, two or three Inches long, 
crooked Roots, with feveral fibrils to draw its Nourifhment. The Stalk is 
woody, covered with a gray Bark, having feveral Hexangular, green 
Branches, about a Foot and an half high, befecwich Leaves towards their 
tops, three at a place, being without any Foot-Stalk, three quaters of an 
Inch long, and half an Inch broad near the end, where broadeft, {errated 
about the edges, and of a grafs green colour. Ex alis foliorum come the 
Flowers, ftanding ona quarter of an Inch long Foot-Stalks. They are te- 
trapetalous, whitifh, with many Stamina, ftanding round on all hands within 
them, to which follows a roundith Cap(ula, or Head of two Leaves, light 
brown, membranaceous, no bigger than a great Pins head, containing very 
many, {carcely perceivable,. {mall, brown Sceds, ftanding round a fungous 
fubftance 
