Be The Natural Hiftoryof JAM A UC-A; 
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the Stalks on which the Flowers ftand, as well as the Flower 
being purple. a | | 
RE indifferently with the former on all the Trees of this Ifland. 
s themfelves, 
VI. Vifcum Opuntioides ramulis compreffis. Cat. Fam. p. 168. Tab. 201. Fig. 
s. Raij, Hift Vol. 3. Dendr. p. 52. | 
This Miffeltoe grew out of the Truncsof Trees after the Manner of 
the Vifcum baccis albu, C. B. It feem’d by its Way of Growth to be near 
of Kin to the Opuntie, having no Leaves or rather Stems, but what 
we mult call the Stem or firft Leaf at the coming out of the Trunc of the 
Tree, was flat, fomewhat roundifh, of a very dark green Colour, having 
at every Inch and half’s Diftance, out of their Sides only, Branches or 
Leaves oppofite one to another, and growing out of one another, after 
the Manner of the Indian Fig, being an Inch and a half long, and an 
eighth of an Inch broad, the whole growing to be a Foot long ; at the Ends 
of the Branches are the Flowers, being {mall, -yellowifh, and two toge- 
ther, to which follows a whitifh Berry, exactly like that of the ordina- 
ry Miffeltoe. 
This: Miffeltoe. grew on a Tree by a Ford, near Mr. Mec Graghs’s 
Houfe in Liguanee, on the Banks of. Hope River. ..., : 
The Defcription and Figure of this make it plainly different from the 
planta baccifera {candens, epidendros Maderaspatana. geniculato..c guadtripin- 
nato caule flofculis exiguis ad genicula capreglis donstas Pluken, Tab, 310. Fig: 
6, Alm. p. 298. tho’ the Dr. in his Maatiffa, p. 1 52- thinks they may be the 
fame. recon linge GLasin' ioe, 
VII. Vifcam ramulis & folijs longts denfiffimis, flriatis & rvadiatis. Cat. 
Sam, p. 168. Tab. 201. Fig. 2. Ray. Hist. Vol. 3: Dendr, p. 52. 
‘This hung down from Trees after the Manner of Miffeltoe, ha- 
ving a roundifh, green, woody, ftriated Stalk, as big as a Goofe’s Quill, 
two or three Foot long, fometimes flatter and fometimes rounder, ha- 
ving a large Pith. It was divided into feveral Branches, and they into 
Twigs at every one, two, or three, Inch’s Diftance, at which Divifions 
the Stalk was always fet round, almoft after the Manner of ftellated Plants 
with roundifh, Inch and a half Jong, green Leaves, juft like Stalks, only 
{maller and very numerous, fo that it appears.very bufhy. What Fruit 
it has I know not, but am apt to believe it to be like that of the Prece- 
dent. 
It grew on the Arms and Branches of Trees, like Miffeltoe, ia the 
North Parts of this Iffand. 3 
VIL. Thymelea humilior folijs acutis atrovirentibus. Cat. jam, p.168. Tab. 
169. 210-1; 5. Rat. Hist Vol. 3. Dendr. p. 55, 
This Shrub has aRoor as thick as. ones Little Finger, of a reddifh brown 
Colour, having a rugged Bark,which main Root is branch’d out into more 
fmall roundifh ones three Inches long, going, into the Ground to draw 
thence its Nourifhment ; the Stalks are angular and cover’d witha grey 
Bark, rifing to a Foot anda half high, bufhy, and being towards their Fops 
thick befet wth Leaves oppofite to.one another, they are almoft an Inch 
long, and not above one tenth of an Inch broad, where broadeft, ver 
{mooth, hard and ofa dark. green Colour, the, Flower comes out of the 
Ala of the Leaves, without any Footftalk; is tetrapetalous, each Petalon 
being long, narrow, aud bow’d backwards, pale yellow, green colour’d, 
with fome Stamina of the fame Colour in their Middle, after which follows 
the Seed, being a {mall roundifh Berry or Seed, eds at eworg: 
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