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flowers, which grow in clutters, are fucceeded by fo many reddifh fucculent capful 

 It yields a great quantity of a gummy-refin j which, when pure, is of a yel 



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and, after a fhort time, acquires a hard fragil confiften 



It is daily 



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fed in ftrengthening-plaifters, for which it is defervedly much recommended. It 



and may be ufed, with great propriety, in all fwel 



warm difcutient 



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rifing from colds, the weaknefs of the veflels^. or poverty of the juices, both 

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The gum diffolved in water, is an eafy purgative, and thought to be 



ordinary diuretic 



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CUPANIA i. Arborea, foliis ohlongh crenato-fe 



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racemis laxis prop en dent i bus, 





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Loblolly* wood. 



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This flirubby 

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height of 



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 14 feet : the leaves are pretty large, and the wood 



is pretty common in the lower hills of "Jamaica 



foft and ufelefs, from whence its name. Each of the feeds has a proper cup with 



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VITIS 1. SiheJirtSy far mentis late repentibus, uvis minor ibus nigris 

 Vitis frufiu minor e rubro acerbo, &c. SI. C. 171. & H. 104. f. 111 



Vitis vinifera fyhejiris Americana, &c. Pk. Phy 



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Vitis foliis cordatls fubtrilobls dent at is fubtus tomentofls. L. Sp. PI. 

 Cevalchichiltse Hern. 128. 



The Jamaica Grape-vine, commonly called Water-withe. 



The withe of this grape-vine, when it grows luxuriant, as it generally does in 

 the higher woody lands of this ifland, is fo full of juice, that a junk of about 3 

 feet will yield near a pint of clear taftelefs water j which has faved the lives of 

 many who have wandered long in the woods, without any other refreshment of a 

 liquid fort. It produces a great quantity of fmall black grapes in the lower hills ; 

 but they are of a rough tafte, and would doubtlefs make an excellent red wine, if 

 properly managed : they feem to thrive beft in the red hills. 



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VITIS 2. Vulgaris uvis nigris & albis. 



The common Grape-vine, with black and white berries. 



This grape-vine is planted in gardens, as well as the following, for the fake of 

 their berries •, but no man has yet attempted to plant them in any quantity, or to make 

 wine of them, in this country ; though the ifland affords a thoufand other fruits, 

 to inlarge the quantity and enrich the flavour of the juice. It is faid that grapes do 

 not ripen regularly in thofe fultry climates, and I believe the aflertion is generally 

 true j but declare I have no where feen grapes ripen more regularly than the Mufca- 

 dine, and natives do, in that ifland. 





VITIS 3. Uvis major I bus a Ibis fucco melleo turgidis. 



The Mufcadine Grape-vine. 



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very well in Jamaica, and anfwers better than any of 



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forts that have been hitherto introduced there. It grows well in the lower 



ripen 



all its ber 



ly at a time 



d doubt not but it may be 



brought, with 



to great perfect 



Its clufters are generally very large, and 



the grapes very mellow and fweet in thofe parts; and, doubtlefs, would produce a 



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