198 The Natural Hiftory of Jamaica. 
An Chamefyce Americana major floribus Slomeratis cynocranbes folio elabro. 
Cy. pr.a. Pe 3? 
nie has fi reddifh, ftringy, crooked Roots, which united {end out 
one ftrong red Stalk dividing its felf into feveral green, round Branches, 
rifing ten Inches high. The Leaves come out at the joints of the Branches, 
about half an Inch from one another, they are two and two, fet one again{t 
the other on very thort Foot-Stalks, are about an Inch long, and one chird 
part of an Inch broad at round Bafe where broadeft, and whence they de- 
crcafe, endingin a point, being cut {nipt or indented about the edges, and 
{mooth. Ex alis foliorum, come for the moft part Inch long Foot-Stalks, {u- 
{taining many white, or purple, tetrapetalous very fimall Flowers, fet very 
clofe together one by the other, or conglomerated, after which follow as 
many {mall tricoccous Sceds, like the others of this Kind. 
The whole Plant is milky. 
It grows in laboured or cleared Grounds in the Plantations. 
“The Leaves, or any part of this Plant are poyfonous, if eaten by Hogs. 
The Milk of this Plant rubbed on Warts cures them. 
XV. Peplis fruticofa, maritima, geniculata. Cat. p.82. An fanamunda Afri» 
‘cana. “Park. p. 204? . 
This {mall leav’d Sea Spurge, had a four Inches long, red, wooddy Root, 
from which rofe feveral red Foot and an half high Stalks, ftraight, and 
‘jointed at eyery quarter of an Inch, having at the joints Branches, and on 
them feveral Leaves, ftanding fide Ways oppofite to one another, at the 
joints likewife. They are very fmall, being not over one third part of an 
Inch long, and a quarter of an Inch broad, neat the middle where broadeft, 
{mooth, of a very pale green, or glaucous colour, ftanding on very fhore 
Foot-Stalks. On the tops of the Twigs comes out a very finall, tetrapeta- 
tous, pale, or whitifh yellow Flower, after which follows a finall tricoccous 
Seed, asin others of this Kind. : se 
The whole Plant is very milky. 
It grew on Gum Cayos, near Port Royal, 
XVI. Chamafyce. C. B. Cat. p. 83. Tithymalus exiguus glaber nummularie 
folio, Tournefort. El. p. 74. Inft. p. 87. Tithymalus minimus  riber rotundifo- 
Lins procumbens. Bob, Hift. Ox. part. 3. P- 340. ’ 
“~~ Yeould not obferve any difference between the Chamefyce growing about 
Montpelier, and here in Famaica, and therefore 1 reckon them the ‘fame 
oad and if there be any difference, *tis, that in Famaica it is larger than 
In &4rope. oe 
eae (; phe in dry fandy places, about the Town of St. Fago dela Vega, very 
plentifully. 3 
It takes off all Warts, they being rub’d with it. Boil’d with Victuals or 
Sallet, it loofens the Belly : the juice does the fame. It is good for taking 
off {pots from the Eyes, as weil as Dimnefs and Clouds, being rub’d on 
them, mix’d with Honey. Lon, fpecune «5 stiee 
It has all the vertues of the other Zithymals. Doi Writing with its juice is 
not difcovered but by Afhes, Lic. sine RE ges i 
The Greeks were “nor ‘acurate fometimes in giving their namés, as’ may 
appear by this, having no quality of the Fig-Tree only it has Milk, and fo 
has Lettice. “Zac. * ie i, 
* This Plan grows in moft parts of the World. 
ee XVIL Plantago’Cefalp: Cut.'p. 83. ‘ 
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