[240 Salmon^ H^hal. Lib> 1. 



^J/6 to, and Men like a Hand mth fingers, 

 \o do' thereinto, that if puiled off, or jorc^d 

 away from the Wall, or thing ,t ft'cks to. it mil 

 bring fart of the Wall, bnch. Stone, Board, or 



''^oSy'fdtH}fii^^ 



Zy^HouJe, "or lo Ihe vfr/ top'of%e high^fiVee, 



%!, or'mhe?fo"ldeytlgether, 'at tu'firftcoZg 

 forth, and very red wh,ch alter in growing large, 

 and are very fair, large and green, divided into 4, 

 S,6or-i Le^es, Jjanding together upon a fmall 

 lootfialk. Jet without Order on the Branches ; at 

 tV,tmffort;Zefs'jhTTufts 1r tuds % 



^"iV. TheTbcon J ^r Hedera Virginiana Trifolia, 

 The three Leav>d Creeper. The Roots of this Plant 

 do Jhoot under Ground, and Jeni forth young 

 woody Stalks, of which fome mil ftand upright, 



ypread, as alfo in any Wall they (iand nigh to. Me 

 unto our Barren Ivy. The Leaves are broad and 



ftafk. At'theyiints'toith the Leaves, come forth 

 without any moifture at all in them. Thh Plant 



therefore held Jit to color Hair, Leather^ or any 



V. Mr. Rw's (ingular Defcription of the Virgi- 



divided into many long weak Branches, which fet 

 againfi a Wall, will faficn thereunto, with Jmall 

 Claws like unto a Birds-foor, and climb to the top 

 of a tall Chimney. 1 he Leaves at firfi are red and 



ded into \, 6, or mere Leaves, {landing together 

 upon a Jmall iootftalk. Jet without order. The 



VI. The Places. They grow in Virginia, and 



have been Tranfplanted to us, with whom they 



high StOTe' or Brick wills" or\he^Me?ol^very 

 high Houfes. 



VII. The Times. The particular times of their 

 Flowering, our Authors have not Obferved, but 



VIII. Nothini 



1 Obferved a 



CHAP. DCCXXIX. 



0/ VIRGINIA Stlk-Crafs. 



l.^HE Names. It is a Plant of Noval In- 



1 vention, and therefore no Primary Greek 



fuch as'have'been''afcribed Tok by Modern "aJ"- 



rion of but one fort, bur Parkinjon of two, viz. 



Greater Virginia Silk-Grafs. 2. Periploca'' Virgu 

 niana minor. The Lcflbr Virginia Silk- Grafs. 

 Gerard will have it to be a kind of Afclepuu or 



fuch thing. Alpmus de Plant. JF.fi^pt. cap. 25. 

 has a Plant called Beideljar -, Homrws BeU„s, in 



calls Apocynum Syriacum, PaleJiinum&'jEglptM- 

 cum : Thefe, fome will have to be ihis Silk-Grajs, 



Frutex or s7rub"wLx^3S tL\ not'' LutToofe* 



Ground every Year. ^Again^ rhe^Miirof diofe 

 Plants is Caujhck, as Alpinus and Bel/m fay, 



not. Alfo the Cods of thofc of Alpmus, ^ Bellm, 



S//AG*2^'5re aooked'^llmoft likf Hooks° a°nd 

 yet they grow perfeftly upright. 



7he Defcriptions. 



in. Mr. Reds Defcription, which I take to be 

 of the Greater kind, is this. Virginian SUk is a 

 Plant more reJpeHed for being a Stranger, than 



ing up again in many places. It rifes up with one 

 or more round Stalk, almojl four leet high. Jet at 

 Jeveral Joints with two long, Woad, veined, round 



lTof\%lZnf7oJe'cots trtZ teat'Tfif 

 Plowers, to the number of thirty or forty, bang- 

 ing down on leng iootjialks, each Flower conjifing 

 of five Jmall hollow Leaves, of a pale purplijh co- 

 lor, neither fair nor pleajant. After they are 

 paji, come long crooked Cods , ftanding upright, 



gre'aTdefl of fin7joft whitiJhTr'own Silk'. Tfe 

 I take to be Parkinfon's Greater Virginia Silk. 



IV. The firft, or Parkinjon's Greater Virginia 

 Silk-Grafs. Us Root U long and white, of the big- 

 Heads being Jet full of fmall white Grumes or 

 Knots, yielding forth many Branches or Stalks, if 

 or more ftrong and round Stalks, S or ^ Feet high, 



VanTthe/eTn, growini llofe to "the 'st)m^ without 

 any Footftalk. At the tops of the Stalks, andfome-^ 



