﻿232 THE NATURAL HISTOR 



more agreeable acid fruit-trees have been fo much cultivated and fpread among us 

 It may be ordered, upon occafion, in cooling and other diluting infufions. 



PHYTOLACCA I. ErecJa, fmplex aut vix divifa-, foliis iniegris,fuftenta- 



culis fpicarum rotundatis. 



anifo Calal 



This plant is a native of 'Jamaica, and now cultivated in moft of the kitchen- 

 gardens in the ifland. It is a palatable wholfome green, and, as fuch, commonly 

 ufed at moft people's tables : the tender ftalks are frequently ferved up for young 

 Sperages, and often prove a very agreeable fuccedaneum. The plant rifes generally 

 to the height of two or three feet, and branches but very little ; it moots up fpon- 

 taneoufly in every fertile fpot in the illand, 



PHYTOLACCA 2. uiffurgens ramofa, fpicis florum longifimis, fujlent a cu- 

 lls trigonis. 

 Phytolacca foliis integerrimis. Gro. Fl. Virg. & Lin. Sp. PL 



Mountain Calaloe y or Poke- weed. . 



This plant is a native of Jamaica, and commonly found in all the cooler hills 

 and mountains of the ifland, where it grows very luxuriantly: it rifes generally to 

 the height of four or five feet, and divides pretty much towards the top. It is call- 

 ed either red or white, from the colour of the flower-ftalks ; for all the branches 

 terminate in long and flender fpikes of thofe colours. The leaves and more tender 

 ihoots are frequently ufed for greens, by the negroes, inftead of the other fort. 



The infpiflfated juice of this plant has been for fome time in ufe among the inha- 

 bitants of North America, and there, is thought to be a fpecific, or, at leaft, a 



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very powerful remedy in ope 



pplied plaifter-ways, and has fucceed 



ed in fome cafes that had all the appearance of beginning 



It is hoped the ingenious gentleman, who publillied his remarks on thofe occa- 

 iions, will continue his obfervations, and (if he finds the medicine prove fuccefsful) 

 give the world a further and more fatisfactory account of its action. 



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Of the Dodecandria* or Vegetables that have twelve 



Filaments in every Flower. 





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Of fuch as have twelve Filaments and one Style in eve?y Flower. 



*RIUMFETTA 1. Subvillof a, foliis rotundioribus undulatis atque dent at is-, 



dentibus poftremis in fetas inermes abeuntibus, fori bus 



alar i bus. Tab. 25. f. 1. 



The round-leafed Triumfetta. 



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As the characters of thefe different fpecies differ more or lefs from one another, 

 I mail give a particular account of the flowers and fructifications of each 

 them feparately. 



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