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Afclepias Jolt is amplexantibus oblong 



Apofinutn Indicum maximum y &c. Thez. Zey 



L. Fk). Zey. & Sp. PI 



Ericum 



H. M. p. 2. & Pk. t. 175. f.3 



The Auricula 



French Jafi 



This flirub is now common in all the Savannas about Kingfion and Old-harbou 



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the trunk is pretty 



with large roundiih 



bark of this plant is whki(h and fpongy, and the leaves beiet with a whkifh dow 



h divided above the root, and the branches furnifhed 

 which feem to embrace them at their infertions. The 



the flowers 



difpofed 



nd fucceeded by fo many large oval foil 



bellated groups at 



of the branches 



ASCLEPIAS 2. 



Erefia foliis angu/lis acuminatis verticilliter ternatis, fo- 



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ribus umbellatis termmatncibus. 



Apocynum ereftum folio oblongo, &c. Slo. Cat. 89. & H. t. 129. 



Wild or Baftard Ipecacuanha. 



This plant is very common in all our fugar-colonies; it grows upright, and fel- 

 dom rifes more than two or three feet above the root : the flowers -are of a fine iaf- 

 fron colour in the low lands, but in the cooler inland pailures they change to a white. 

 The juice of the plant, made into a fyrup with fugar, has been obferved to kill and 

 bring away worms wonderfully, even when moft other vermifuges have failed; it is 

 given to children from a tea to a common fpoonful. 



The juice, and pounded plant, is applied to ftop the blood in frem wounds, 

 and is faid to be a very powerful aftringent in fuch cafes. The root dried and re- 

 duced to powder, is frequently ufed by the poorer fort of people as a vomit. 



ASCLEPIAS 3. Funiculacea late Jcandens i foliis rarioribus cordato-lanceo- 



latis y fori bus umbellatis. 



Apocynum fruticofum fcandens, &c. Slo. Cat. 89. & H. 1. 131. . . 



This plant rifes by very (lender weakly italks, and frequently fpreads itfelf to the 



the plant is furnilbed with very few 



main 



diftance of fome yards from the 



leaves, but it has a good many flowers diipofed 



flalks 



flender. and the 



milk, and common in the larger inland woods 



in large umbellated groops: the 

 hole plant of a dark green colour; it is very fullof 



ASCLEPIAS 4. S-candens villofa major \ foliis £f capfulis majoribus ova/is, 

 An> Michuacanna. Hernandes, 164? 



The climbing Afclepias^ with large pods. 



I found this plant at Mr. Farrell's, in Portland, and near Mr. Beckford's, in 



; it is a climber, and generally fupported by the help of the 



5/. Thomas in the Eaft 



ghbouring bu(hes, or found creeping among the rocks : the follicules, or pods, are 



oval, and feldom under two inches in the tranfverfe diameter. It has 



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the appearance of the Mecbuacanna of Hernandes, and do not doubt its being 

 fame. 



ASCLEPIAS 5. Minor fcandens foliis 



mofs racemis Jparf. 



ijjitnis, fori bus paucioribus 



Th 



much. 



plant is pretty much like the third fp 



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does 



fpread near fo 



bear its flowers 



fame 



more frequent in the 



fwampy lands 



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HERNIARIA, 





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