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it grows every where about Palifadocs, and among Shmbs in the Su- 
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is think every body will agree with me, ‘that this is rathe a Palerianella 
than a Solanum bacciferum, notwithftanding Dr. Plukenet’s contrary Opi- 
nion in his Afant. p. 173. 
{ll Deatellaria Lychnivides fylvatica fcandens flore albo. ‘Cat...9r. Tab, y ra 
£1g.1. Plumbago Americana viticulis longiovibus fempervirestibus ex Vora 
Cruse. Hort. Reg. Flampton. Boburt. part. 3. Fift. Ox. p. 59%. An plumbago 
( forte) Americana ex conjectura D.Sherard. Pluken. Phyt. Ta. 312. Fie. > 
An Chilmecatl feu Tcha. Hern. p. 140. — : 
The Stalks of this Plant are round, jointed, fhining, geen, wooddy, 
crooked, rifing three or four Foot high, when its weak Banches are fup- 
ported by Shrubs, among which it ufually grows. ‘The Leaves come out on 
the Branches without any Foot-Stalks, being thin, {inootl, for the mo? 
part roundifh, and about two Inches over, though fometims oblong, like 
the Leaves of the commom Dentellaria. The tops of the branches are fer 
with Flowers Spike-fafhion, without any Foot-Stalks, but joii’d to the 
Stalk by a rough, or almoft prickly, vifcous, ftriated, green Dalyx, in which 
is plac'd a white pentapetalous Flower, like the Flowers of tre Lychnis’ fylv. 
Sflore albo, afcer which follows one large four-{quare, brown Seed, in a rough, 
wifcid Capfula. m : 
__ It grows it the Woods, or among Shrubs every where, ind very plenti- 
sr on cach fide of the Road, between Paffage Fort, and St. Jaco de Is 
Cra. 
“IV. Admirabilis Pernana rubro flore. Cluf. rar. pl. hit. Cat. p. 91. Fallapa 
flore purpureo. Tournefort. Inft. p. 129. The four a Clock Flower. 
It is frequent every where in the Woods and Plantations that are often 
watered with Rain, and ufually opens its Flower abour four a Clock, 
we the name. It has in this Ifland, forthe moft part a {carlet or purple 
Flowé?. (22:9 -n0 ket : 
At Barbados 1 was told by a perfon knowing in thefe matters, that its 
Root was Mechoacan or Falap ; but this I {uppofe came from its purging warcr, 
which it does ficcefsfully, ‘and cures the Dropfie, as Pi/o relates. 
The Flowers yield a tin@ture for painting Women withal. Pi(o. 
Cortufxs hath found out that two Drams of the Root, doth very notably 
purge waterifh humours. Clnf. 
The Roots are moift and cold, wherefore they are eaten, and outwardly 
applied to cool. Some fay the Root of that Kind, with varioufly colour’d 
Flowers to two Drams, purges water. Hern. 
The red Flower'd ones Seed fown brings always red Flowers,  Cluf. 
:- Plamier and Lignon, told Mr. Tournefort that the Falap of the Shops was 
not»different from his Falapa Oftcinarum Fratta rnzofo. 
“WV. Agrimonia lappacea inodora, folio [abrotundo dentato. Cat, p. 92. 
‘This rifes to four or five Foot high, being divided into {everal fmaller 
Branches towards the top, which are befet with fevetal Leaves without any 
order, ‘ftanding’ on half an Inch long tough Foot-Stalks. They are almott 
round, though a little pointed, with two Lacinie or finuations, being an Inch 
long and three quarters of an Inch broad at Bafe, where broadeft, in- 
dented round the edges, woolly, of a deep green colour above, and paler 
below, having fome eminent Ribs going from the Center of the Foot-Stalk 
through the Leaf. The Flowers ftand on the tops of the caer ne 
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