^iUJ0.ut?A K OUT US JAMATCENSIS. T43 



1. SPINOSUS, PPuICKLY. 



BUtmn americanum spino.fum. Sloane, v. I. p. 143. ^culeafus rie- 

 jcscens, Jioribus confertis sessilibus, capitulis alaribus. Browne, 

 p. 341. 

 Racemes terminating, compound ; axils tliorny. , 



Sloane calls this the red weed of Barbadoes. It hjs an oT)Iong deep reJJish root, 

 with some fibres, sending up a roundish red, strong, striated stalk, which has several 

 branches of the same colour. The leaves cf>n;ie out along the branches without any 

 crder, of a reddish colour, harving usually under thera some sharp short prickles. The 

 flowers come out in long spikes on the tops of the branches, of an herbaceous colour, 

 after which follow small, black, shining, flat, seeds. It grows every where by the 

 way sides in Jamaica. Sloane. 



This plant is frequently used as a vegetable^ and is perfectly wholesome and 

 agreeable. 



2. vmim.s. GREEy. 

 Blitum mijtiis album pol^spermon folio subrotundo. Sloane, v. 1, p. 

 143, t. 92, f. 1. 



Qromerules axillary, germinate; male flowers trrfid ; leaves ovate, emargjnate ; 

 stem erect. 



The root is laige, strong, perpendicalarl}' fixed In the- earth, straight, reddish to- 

 wards the top, and sending out round it several branches on every hand, often trailing 

 on the ground, and very rarely erect, two or three feet long, striated, green, and suc- 

 culent, along which come out several leaves on long petioles, bluntish, now and then 

 covered with a brownish farina. The flowers are spflie fashioned, very numerous along 

 the branches, and greenish. To each fltJv/er follows a round seed, compressed, black, 

 shining, and little, inclosed m a pale green memlirane. It grows every where in thft 

 lowlands and plantations, and is to be gathered every where, very plentifully, after 

 xain. When the leaves are stripped off" and boiled as a sallet, it is one of the pleasantest 

 J ever tasted, having something of a more fragrant and gateful taste than any of these 

 ierbs I ever knew. It is used in clysters in the belly-ache, as the best and most com- 

 Eion emollient herb the country aff'ords. Sloane. 



See Goose Foot. 



Calalu, Spanish ^^e^ Poksweep. . 



1\1) EnglhJi Name. C ALLICARPA. 



Cl. 4, OR. 1. Tetrandriafmo-itogynia. Nat. or. Dumosae, 

 -^ES; CHAR. Calyx a one-leafed, hell-form perianth, mouth four-cleft, erect; eo^ 

 rolla monopetalous, tubular, border four-cleft, obtuse, spreading ; stamens fili- 

 form, twice the length of the corolla; anthers ovate-incumbent ; the pistil has a - 

 roundish germ ; style filiform, thicker at top ; stigma thickish, obtuse ; pericarp 

 a globular smfxjth berry ; seeds four, oblong, shaped like a meniscus, compressed, 

 *alious. Swartz found two species of tliis genus in Jamaica. 



1. FEBRUGINEA* 



