So OR 
212 The Natural Eiftory of ‘Jamaica. 
Spike, are yellbw, the Perala being long and like thofe of our European 
Agrimony, ony narrower. After thefe follow on a crooked Foot-Stalk, 
{everal brown round Burs, thick fet with hooked prickles, {ticking to any 
thing like the seeds of Agrimony. 
Ir grows about the Town of St. Fago de la Vega, and in feveral other 
places of this ‘fland. | 
In my Cataogue I plac’d this amongft the Plants of the Kindred of the 
Umbellifera, as moft of the beft Boranifts have done before me, fo that 
Dr. Plukenet mizht have fay’d himfelf the trouble of his long Paragraph upon 
this occafion ir p.112.and 113. of his Mantiffa. 
VI. Cotyledos aquatica. Cat. p. 93. Ranunculo afinis umbelliferis accedens in 
paluftribus foliopeltato repens Americana cy noftras. Pluken, Alm. p. 314. Vales 
rianelle cognata folio cotyledonis, Herm. pars Bat. Cat. p. 13. Alydrocotyle Vul- 
garis. Tonrnef. lnft. p. 328. 
Out of every half Inch of a round, fmall Root, creeping under the fur- 
face of the Eath, at the joints, are a great many very fmall hairy, blackifh 
fibers, by whic the Plant is nourifhed, and from the fame places are fent up 
the Leaves and Flowers Foot-Stalks, which are fometimes one, fometimes 
more, round, greenifh, and four Inches long. The Leaves are round, thick, 
finuated on the edges, fmooth, of an Inch Diameter, very green, their Foot- 
Stalk entring intheir very Center, from whence fome Nerves are fent to the 
Circumference. The Flowers fland clofe together round their Foot-Stalks 
end. They are many, all near join’d to one another on almoft no Foot- 
Stalks, and are of a greenifla colour. Ina fhort time appear the Seeds, be- 
ing broad, of the fhape of Parfhep-Seeds, ftriated, and ftanding on Foor- 
Stalks, taking their beginning from the great Foot-Stalks end, like the 
Umbellifera. 
I can obferve no difference between this and Cotyledon aquatica Foannis 
Banh. 
It grows in feveral places along the moift Banks of the Rio Cobre, in 
ma Marihes or wet Grounds in the Caymanes, and other places of this 
Ifland. 
This Plant is fharp to the taft, and has been taken by fome of the Plan- 
sr place of Scurvygrafs, by ufing its diftill’'d water as Spirit of Scurvy- 
rafs 
: It has fubtle and hot parts, pleafant and Aromatick to the taft. . Its chief 
Vertues are in the Roots, which are opening. They open Obftructi- 
ons of Liver and Reins, and help: a hot Conftitution, fo that no Remedy 
is more proper. The juice of the green Leaves is efteem’d by the Inhabitants 
a famous Antidote, andthey procure Vomit with it, as we do with the juice 
of Afarabacca Leaves. Pifo. 
It is us’ d to take away the marks called Os Figados by the Partugsefe, 
which I fuppofe are Liver marks. Marcgr. | 
Gerard {ays that it was called Sheeps Bane by the Husbandmen, for that it 
kill'd the Sheep feeding on it, and therefore is angry with Apothecaries for 
ufing it for Wall-Penniwort alledging it would be more pernicious to Men 
than Sheep, 
Lobel and Dod. tell us that they ufed it for Cotyledon in the Ung. Populn. 
both for ignorance and want of the true Cotyledon. 
_ It is fharp and exulcerating, therefore not to be ufed, or called Cotyledon, 
but Ranunculus. Col. | 
It iscalledWhite-Rot, becaufe it kills Sheep feeding on it. Park. 
Cuap, 
