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creeping vines, like our Tamus, or Black Bryony, are Yams,^ 



best of all roots. 



Tlie brandling broad-leaved canes, with strange white 



flowers, is Arrow-root.^ The tall mallow-like shrub, with 



large pale yellowish-white flowers, 

 Cotton. The huge grass with beads 

 on it^ is covered with the Job's tears 

 which are precious in children's eyes, 

 and will be used as beads for neck- 

 laces. The castor-oil plants, and the 

 maize that last always beautiful 

 are of course well known. The ar- 

 row leaves, three feet long, on stalks 

 three feet high, like gigantic Arums, 

 are Tanias,* whose roots are excel- 

 lent. The plot of creeping convol- 

 vulus-like plants, with purple flowers, 



is the Sweet, or true. Potato.^ 



And we must not overlook the French Physic-nut,^ with 

 its hemp-like leaves, and a little bunch of red coral in the 

 midst, with which the Xegro loves to adorn his garden, and 

 uses it also as medicine ; or the Indian Shot/ which may 

 be seen planted out now in summer gardens in England. 



Yam. 



Dioscorea. ^ Maranta. ^ Coix lacryma. 



Ipomcea Batatas. ^ Jatropha multifida. 



* Xanthosoma. 

 ^ Canna. 



