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The two lafl fpecies are very common about this Ifland, and grow, like mo/1 com- 

 mon vegetables, with loofe difengaged branches, but without any foliage. The latter 

 fort rifes to a moderate fize, and its mean item, when dripped of the branches, is fre- 

 quently ufed as a riding fwitch. 



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AGAR ICU 8 i . Villofo-membranaceus, Juperne laBeus. 



An, Agaric um Membranaceum Micheli. T. 66. f. 2. 



The fmall white villous Agaricus. 



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AGARICUS 2. Subcinereus oblongus, ad apicem jimbriatus, elatior. 



The oblong fringed Agaricus. 







This little plant is very beautiful in its form, and of a whitifh am-colour. It is very 

 rare in this Ifland : I have met with this fpecies in the remote mountains of 

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AGARICUS 3. Niveus major ad imum tumidus lame His interrupts. 

 Agaricus Ofjicinarum. : 





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The larger white Agaricus with interrupted lamina?. 



The plant is frequent enough in the woods of 'Jamaica, where its growth is but 

 little difturbed or noticed. It is eafily diftinguifhed by its white colour, thicker mafs, 

 and the interrupted difpofition of its Lamina? or feed plates. 



This , vegetable has been lately difcovered to be the moft effectual application 

 hitherto known to reflrain the effufion of blood in recent or old wounds, as well 

 as in chirurgical operations; nay, is now found to anfwer even where fome of the moil 

 coniiderable arteries are cut (a) : is applied in fmall pieces (b) to the extremities 

 of the vefTels. The powder of this plant has been, heretofore, frequently ufed as a 

 purgative, and put as a principal ingredient in fome of the capital preparations of the 

 fhops, but is now defervedly left out of all the {landing compositions. - 



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1 . Subjufca, fuperne fubfpongiofa, Janugtnoja. 







The downy Poria of a darkifh brown colour. 



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2 . Mini at a fuperne glabra. 



The fcarlet Poria with a fmooth furface. 



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(a) See Cafes in Surgery, &c. by Jofeph Warner. 1754. 



(b) The middle part of this fubftance is all that is ufed, the outward coats being ftripped off on botl 



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