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^ r do make a pretty appearance in the latter part of 

 ■ ';' fummer, when they are properly difpofed in the 

 ' ' .'. borders of the flower-garden j or if they arc planted 

 • , ' jn pots, for the decoration of courts, &c._ being in- 

 /■ termixed with other annual plants, which are in 

 beauty at the fame fcafon, they will make an agree- 

 ' '^ "able variety, efpecially,' if as many of the different 

 i ^. Ihaped fruits, of both the red and yellow colours as 



- can be procured, are propagated. 

 /. - The four laft forts have perennial Ihrubby ftalks, 



which rife four or five feet high ; thefe are not fo 



hardy as the other, therefore when the plants have 



' been brought forward in the hot-bed, as was di- 



i - refted for the common forts, they lliould be each 



planted in a pot filled with rich earth, and plunged 



';■.-,: into a very moderate hot-bed, under a deep frame, 



where they may have room to advance ; and in warm 



bifcuit, which, beaten into fine powder and Ciftcdi 

 may be kept for ufe. This may be ufed as the con> 

 mon Pepper, to feafon meat or broth, or for any of 

 the purpofes that the ordinary Pepper is ufed: ic 

 gives a better reliih to meat or fauce, and is found 

 of excellent ufe to break and difcufs the wind, bot!i 

 in the ftomach and the guts ; tliei-efore is very prooer 

 fauce for fuch meats as are flatulent and windy,*" or 

 that breed much moifture or crudity. A fcrupic of 

 this powder put into chicken or veal broth, is greatly 

 commended for comforting cold fliomachs, or dif- 

 pelling of phlegm or vifcous humours, and helping 



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Indies ; but they have been brought to Europe from 

 America, where they abound in all the Caribbee 

 iflands, and are by the inhabitants greatly ufed in all 



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weather, they ihould have a large fliare of air ad- 1 their fauces ; but efpecially by the negroes, who are 



• mitted to them, but mull be covered with glaffes | great devourers of them ; from whence it had the 



every night, or in cold weather, and frequently I appellation of Negro Pepper, and probably the titl 



,^ watered. With this management, they will produce 1 of Guinea Pepper may have been applied to it for 



'■^ plenty of fruit in autumn, which ripen in v/inter ; 

 but they mull be removed into the ftove, on the firft 



the fame reafon. In Spain and Portugal thefe fruit 

 are much cultivated, where they are ufed for the fatne 



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approach of frofl:, and placed where they may have | purpofes as in America ; but in England, thii'y are 

 a temperate warmth, in which they will thrive better | chiefly cultivat;ed for ornament, being rarely ufed for 



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beauty moft part of winter, making a pretty appear- 

 ' ancein .the ftove during that feafon. 

 The feeds of the feventh fort I received from Egypt: | they will raife ftrong and noifome vapours, which 



fauce, or in medicine -, though it is much ufed in 



both, in feveral other countries. 



If the ripe pods of Capficum are thrown into the fire. 



the leaves of this are much narrower than thofe of | occafion vehement fneezing and coughing, and often 



any other fort I have yet feen -, the pods always grow | vomiting, in thofe who are near the place, or in the 



' ereft, and are produced in great plenty, fo that the I room where they are burnt. Some perfons have 



plants make a good appearance for three months in | mixed the powder of the pods with fnufi^, to give to 



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tk winter, and they may be preferved two or three 

 years -, but as the young plants are the moft fruitful, 

 fo few perfons preferve the old longer, than till they 



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and have never found it vary, fo conclude it is a 



diftinft fpecies. 



The eighth fort I received from Antigua, by tl>e title 



of Hen Pepper. This rifes v/ith a fhrubby ftalk 



three or four f *_'",' _ 



toward the top : theTruit is about half an inch long 



Ihaped inform of an obtufe cone, and of a bright 



red, growing ereft. ' This ripens its fruit in winter, 



■ when it makes a pretty appearance. 



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Others for diverfion; but where it is in quantity, there 

 may be danger in ufing it, for it will occafion fuch 

 violent fits of fneezing, as to break the blood-veflfels 

 of the head, as I have obferved in fome to whom it 



has been eriven. 



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eighth, but differs from it in the Ihape and fize of 



, . ' * the fruit: tTiofe of this fort being about the bignefs 



-:/■[''■■ of a Barberry, and nearly of the fame fhape. "This 



:^ * I have long cultivated, "and have not obferved it to 



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' The tenth fort is commonly known by the title of 



' .Bird Pepper in America. This rifes with a fl^rubby 



• ftalk four or five feet high : the leaves are broad, and 



' -rounder at the ends than thofe of the other forts, and 



\ of a lucid green : the fruit grows at the divifions of 



. the branches, ftanding ereft : thefe are fmall, oval, 



antJof a bright red-, they are mvich m.ore fi:iarp ^nd 



bidng than thofe of the other forts. From the fruit 



CAPSULATE pods [of capfula, LaL a chcft] are 

 little, ihort, dry feed-veflfels of plants. 



CAPSULATED plants, are fuch as produce their 

 feeds in fliort dry pods or hufl<s. 



C A R A C A L L A. See Phaseolus, 

 C A R A G A N A. See Orobus. 



CARDAMINDUM. See Trop^olum. 

 CARDAMINE. Lin. Gen. Plant. 727. [takes its 

 name of Cardamum, which is called Nafturtium ; 

 hence it is a fmall fpecies of Nafturtium,] in Englifh, 

 Ladies Smock. 



The Characters are, 

 The empalement is compofed of four oval chlong leaves, 

 flower hath four oblong petals^ placed in for7n of a 



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* ' of this fort is made the Cayan butter, or what the 



..^ mhabitants of America call Pepper-pots, which they 



■^, cfteem as the beft of all the fpices. The following 



^ is a receipt for making a Pepper-pot : take 61 the 



; ripe pods of this fort of Capficum, and di-y "them 



■well in the fun, then put them into an earthen or 



none pot, mixing flour between every ftrata of pods, 



; and put them into an oven after the baking of bread, 



,; that they may be thoroughly dried; after which, 



. ^ they muft be well clcanfed from the flour, and if any 



V of the ftalks remain to the pods, they fliould be taken 



.^ • orr, and the pods beaten, or ground to fine powder; 



'* • to every ounce of this, add a pound of Wheat flour, 



and as much leaven as is fufficient for the quantity 



intended ; after this has been properly mixed and 



,.: ; wrought, it fhould be made into fmall cakes, and 



baked in the fame manner as common cakes of the 



fame fize ; then cut them into fmall parts, and bake 



. ',. ^^^^"^ ^S^n, that they may be as dry and hard a^ 



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above ^ and are much larger than the empalement ; it hath 

 fix Jiamina^ four of which are the leyigth of the empale- 

 ment ; the other ttvo^ which are oppofite^ are much longer : 

 thefe are terminated by oblongs heart-floaped^ ereEl fum- 

 mits. It hath aflenicr cylindrical germen^ as long as the 

 flaminay having no ftyle^ but is crowned by an obtufe 



ifterward turns to a long^ ccynpref 

 tth two cells y opening in two valves 

 if fpirally^ and cafl out the feeds when ripe^ by 

 their elajlicity. 



This genus of plants Is ranged In the fecond feftion 

 of LinniEUs's fifteenth clafs, intitled Tetradynamia 

 Siliquofa ; the flowers of this clafs have fix fl;amina, 

 four of which are fliort, and two are longer, ftanding 

 oppofite, and the feeds are included in long pods. 

 The Species are, 



1. Cardamine (Pr^/^;//;j) foliis pinnatis, foliolis radt- 

 calibus fubrotundis, caulinis lanceolatis. Lin. Sp. 

 Plant. 6'^6. Ladies Smock with winged leaves^ whofe 

 lobes at bottom are roundifh^ but thofe on the flalks are 

 fpear-fhaped. Cardamine pratenfis magno fiore pur- 

 purafcente, Tourn. Inft. 224- 



2. Cardamine {Parviflora) foliis plnnatis, foliolis inci- 

 fis, floribus exiguis, caule erefto ramofo. Ladies 



• Smock with winded leaves^ cut lobcs^ very fmall flowers^ 



Ik. Cardamina annua ex- 



and an upright branching ftalk. 

 iguo flore. Tourn. lull. R, 11. 224. 



3. Cardamine 



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