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Love Apple, 



This pi 



and Cock-roch Apple. 



of Jamaica, and makes a beautiful appearance when ad 



orned with its large yellow berries : it grows in tufts, and bears its fruits on fingle 

 footfialks. The fmell of the apples is faid to kill the Cock-roches. 



SOLANUM 3. AJfurgens viHofum & leniter fpinofum foliis fuperioribus ovato- 



angulatis gemma tis, fruclibus fafciculatis & quaji umbellulatis 

 minor i bus, fafciculis fparfs. 

 An Solanum Caule iner mi fruticofo, foliis geminis altero minore y floribus cimofis. 



L. Sp. PI 



Solanum Bacciferum caule £f foliis tomento incanis, &c 



& H. t. 144. 

 An Juripeba 



SI 



Cat 



07 



Pif. 



8 



Turky Berries. 







SOLANUM 4. AJfurgens trichotomum, foliis ovatis, fru&ibus minoribus 



laxe racemojis, racemis terminahbus* 



Both thefe fp 



each oth 



tnat 



riey h 



The larger Turky Berries. 



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very common in the low lands of Jamaica, and fo like 



monly 



for the fame pi 



both forts 



the ground. They bear pretty thic 



grow much to the fame height and tiiicknefs, and feldom rife above feven feet from 



<, and the berries, which generally are about the 

 fize of our European cherries, ferve to feed the Tuikies, from whence they have 

 received the prefent appellation. 



SOLANUM 5. EreBum, caule 



Sola 



incequaliter porrecJis 



aculeatifjimo, foliis oblongis ad bafm 



Spimferumfrutefc 



Pk. t. 225. f . 5 



Solanum Fruticofum bacciferum Jpinofum ) &c. Slo. Cat. 108. & H 



The Canker Berry. 



This plant feldom rifes above three feet from the root; but both the ftem and 

 branches are every where full of (harp thorns. The berries are bitterim, and thought 

 to be very ferviceable in fore throats. 



SOLANUM 6. Humilius diffufum ; foliis ovatis, 



lulis forum fparjis. 

 Solanum Caule inermi herbaceo, foliis ovatis 



nutantibus, L. Sp. PI. 



An Solanum Somniferum off. Thez. Zey. & Aquara-guia, Pif. 224 



ramulis marginatis, umbel- 

 dentato-angulatis, umbellis 



The branched Caleloe. 



This plant is very common in the low lands of Jamaica, and grows frequently in 

 the grafs pieces ; but it feldom rifes more than two or three feet from the root. It 

 is remarkable that this plant, which is equally common in Europe, and of a virofe 

 heavy fmell and very narcotic quality in thefe cold climates, is void of both in 

 Jamaica, where it is daily ufed for food, and found by long experience to be both 

 a pleafant and wholefome green. 



day almoft in the year. The length of thecommon foot ftalks, and the length and 

 fmoothnefs of the branches is the only difference between the two plants, if they be 



not wholly the fame; but the European feems to grow more twiggy and luxu- 



The negroes at the ferry make ufe of it every 



riant. 



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