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“The Natural Hitory of FAMATCA. 
The Leaves are very much ufed in Baths for Hydropic People, toicleanie 
the Skin, and invall hog: Fomentations.*: =” OY Aree Joost oT 
I find by.a Specimen fent me by Dri Richardfon, thar this is not the Pz. 
burnum [alvia folijs obtults floribus albis, Herm. Par. Bats prope 284. as-l | 
fufpected, p. 164, of my Catalogue, but that, that and the Veburaum citi 
femine feu falvte folsjs mucronatis Americanuse odor atum minus floribus Yncar = 
natis of the faine Author are Varieties of the Periclymenumretium falvte. fo~ 
lio rugofo'minore fubrotundo mentioned to grow in Barbados. p. 39. of Wy” 
Voyage to Farwaica, inthe ft Volume of this Hiftory. vd 
XIII. Periclymenum reckum urtice folio hir[uto majore, flore flavo. Cr 
fam. p. 163.1 4b. 195, Fig. 2» Rai Hift. Vol. 3. Dendr,p-30. Aa Chryfan- 
themum Brafilienfe majus urtice folio. Bob. p. a Vel an Pleudo Marrubium 
Americanum Viburni facie florecarneo. Ejujd. f ift. Ox. Part®3. 9. 4 3 ; 
“Another Sort of Witd-Sage. bast “yey | 
This $htub :is‘much the fame with the precedent, its Trunc rifés.7 or 8 
Foot high; and ib as thick as ones Wrift, has a fmooth, white Bark, and 
{everal Branches towards the Top, inclining downwards, the Leaves are: 
{et oppofite'-to one another in feveral Joints, they ftand on half Inch long’ 
Footitalks, are two Inches long and one broad at the round Bafe, where ‘ 
broadeft, from thence decreafing to a Point, {nipt about the Edges, rough,’ 
and very bike'to the Leaves of ‘Scorodonia. or Nettles,-not bullated, fmel- 
ling like thofe of the foregoing ; the Flowers are many plac’d together 
in Heads clofe by one another as the former, and are of an Orange or 
deep yellow Colour, to which follows\a Bruic exactly like chat of the. 
former. e: | Psa AY RCT 
‘It prowsevery where with the formersics «ie au 
Its Leaves are ufed as thofeof the Precedent. (2° iobave : 
This agrees to Hernandez and Ximenes their Deferiptions who fay, that! 
the Decoétion of the Bark of the Roots and Trunc drank, is good for 
Uterine Difeafés, is diuretic ‘and cleanfes the Body, and that the 
Roots, Bark or Leaves apply’d, open, cleanfe and diffipate ‘Swellitigs. 
and Ulcers, and heal Burns. 
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XIV. Periclymenum rectum hamilius, falvia folio rugofo majore flore purpu- 
reo, frudtu oblongoefculento-purpureo, Cat. fam. p- 164. Rat Hist. ok 3p. 
30. Tab, 195. Fig. 3. Viburnum cisti famine feu falvia folijs mucronatis A- 
mericanum odoratum minus floribus incarnatis, Herm, par. Bat. pr. 384. Pliken. 
Alm. p. 386. An Viburnum Amiericanum minus citi famine folijs crenatis, fore. 
carneo, Breys. pr. 2. p. voz? @ yisvo mo 2fsa5i4 
A foitrrl Sort of Wild-Sage. 
By feveral® corner’d Stalks, having a very large Pith, this Shrub 
rifes three or four Foot high, having two or three Branches coming 
out at a Joint, thick befet with Leaves oppofite to one another, 
having fhort ‘or no Footftalks ; they are two Inches long, and one: broad 
in the Middle where broadeft, indented’ abour the Edges, very near- 
ly refembling thofe of Scoroddnia or'Sage, and like the others of this Kind: 
The Flowets'come out ex: alts‘ Foliarwm, ftand ‘on two Iaches long hairy 
Footftalks, many together, fet clofe to one another, of aipale'Purple 
Colour, and:ate penta petalous! To-them® facceeds' the Fruit, whichis made 
up,of many Acini, clofe fet to one another like Mulberries, eacl) Acinus ® 
containing 
