been infufed, will operate as a mild emetic, the more commend- 

 able, as the wine is faid to be very little changed in tafte by it. 

 Another fpecies of the fame genus, called Spanifh Calalpe, and 

 cultivated in kitchen gardens in Jamaica, as a palatable, whole- 

 fome green, h faid by Thunberg to be in Japan extremely 

 poifonous, though, according to K^mpfer, cultivated there 

 for the fake of its very nutritious root. 



It is remarkable for the different countries in which it is 

 indigenous ; Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Barbary, Virginia, 

 New-England, and Jamaica ; perhaps, however, it has been 

 originally imported to Europe from America. 



The berries afford a beautiful colour, if it could be rendered 

 durable. They are faid to have been at one time much ufed 

 in Portugal, to give a deep colour to the Red Port ; but the 

 tafte being complained of by the merchants, the government 

 ordered the plant to be every where cut down before the 

 berries were ripened. 



The number of flamens, of which we find twelve more ge- 

 nerally than ten, will hardly fuffice to diftinguifh this fpecies: 

 the number of ftyles is ftill more indefinite. 



A hardy perennial, but faid to be fometimes deftroyed by 

 fevere froft. Propagated by parting its roots or by feeds. 

 Flowers in July and through the latter part of the Summer and 

 Autumn. Cultivated by Parkinson in 1640, by Ray, in his 

 garden at Cambridge, and by Morison, the latter of whom 

 has given a better figure of it than he frequently does. Our 

 drawing was taken at Mr. Salisbury's Botanic Garden, at 

 Brompton. 



