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Stamina. 



Filament a quinque ereflo-patentia, cor did breviora ; anthcrae ob- 



longa. 



Pi ft. Minimum abort tens. 



Neftaria totidem minima interpofita. 



Periantium, Vt in mare. 



Fcmina. 

 Corolla, 



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in mare. 



Pift. 



Stamina Nulla, 



Germen ova turn ; ftylus nullus ; ftigmata bina fubrotunda. 



Pericarp. Capful a oblongo-ovata t fimhtrbus aliquot tomento objitis, refcrta. 



This plant is frequent about Kingflon; and rifes, commonly, to the height of 

 two or three feet. The leaves are of* an oval form and intire. 



SMI LAX I. Sarmcnto tereti, inf erne aculeato; foliis fubrotundo-cordat, 



trinerviis ; pet io lis claviculd una r / altera refertis. 

 Smilax caule aculeato teretiujeulo, foliis inermibus ovato-corda/is. L. So. I 



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Smilax Indica Jpinofa, folio Ctnnat, 

 j4n t Sm'tiux ajpera Bermudien/is, &c 



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The Chma-7'oot Plant. 



This plant is frequent in the more cool inland parts of farm ca. It grows wild, 

 rifes from a thick porous root, and climbs by a pretty (lender rigid item, to the top 

 of the talleit. trees in the woods ; this is adorned witli a few prickles towards the 

 bottom, divides into many branches at the top, and throws out its winding tendrels 

 from the foot-flalks of the leaves. The root is commonly ufed in Jamaica, and 

 obferved to anfwer as well as that from the Eajl- Indies: it L of a iheathing nature, 

 and a very fit ingredient in all diluting apozems. ! 



The plant may be eafily propagated, fo as to fupply the European markets, if the 

 medicine was in any general repute: but, at prefent, what grows wild, is more 

 than, fufficient to fupply the inhabitants; and ferves frequently to feed the hogs, 

 which are faid to live chiefly upon it, when there is a fcarciiy of wild fruit. 





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SMILAX 2, Afpera, folih trinerviis oblongisy petiolis biclaviculatis. 



Smilax Virginiana, fpinis innocuis armata. Pk. Phy. t. no. f. 5. 



The prickly Smilax^ with flender roots. 



1 This plant is pretty like the foregoing j but the roots are final!, and divided into 

 a number of flender branches. It is very like the Sarca-parilla of Ptfo. pag. 2 



DIOSCOREA 1. Foliis cordatis t caule tereii aculeato bulbifero. L. Sp. PL 



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Volubilis nigra radice tubcrofa compr'ffa, Sec. Slo. Cat. 46. 





The Negro Yam. 



DIOSCOREA 2. Foliis cordatis, caule alato bulbifero, L.Sp. PI. 

 Volubilis nigra radice alba ant purpurea, &c. Slo. Cat. 46. 



The Yam. 





Both thefe plants are cultivated for food, the roots, which grow very large, be 

 mealv and eafy of digeftion: they are generally both dry and palatable, and not in- 

 ferior to any of thofe now in ufe, either indelicacy, flavour, or mati r of nourish- 

 ment. Both plants are propagated by the piece j but thefe mull be cut fo as to 

 have a little of the (kin upon them, by which alone they germinate; for the roots 

 have no apparent gems, but caft out their weakly items from every part of the furf 



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three in each) 



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dug pretty regular, and about a foot and a half or two feet fq 



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