368 BERMUDAN PLANTS 



Tamalapatra be certaine leaves of greate use in Phisick wch the Arabians 

 call Cadegi Indi & are like unto Pomecitron leaves but narrower 

 towarde the end wth three ribs only running along the leafe & doe 

 somwhat smell like cloves. [MS. fol. i6o. 



[JMS. continues with several items included in the list onf. 165, printed 

 above. The descriptions of the last ten items agree closely with those 

 - in Parkinson's Thcatriim and with those added by him to the last 

 document]. 



List of Plants growing in the Bermudas. 



In the handwritim; of Pai-kinson. 



The poisoned weede is like our English Ivie, being touched causeth 

 rednes itching & lastly blisters wd' after a while passe awaye without further 



bar me. ^J>|^^^^ toxicodendron.'] 



The red weede a tall plant whose stalke being all over covered with 

 a red rinde therupon termed the red weede, the roote wherof being 

 soked in any licour or a small quantitye of the iuice druncke procureth 

 a very forcible vomitt & is generally used of the people & found very 

 effectuall for the paines & distemper of the stomach. 



The [surging beane is a kinde of Woodbinde very coinonly growing by 

 the seaside & rufieth upon trees twining like a Vine : the fruite somewhat 

 resembleth a beane but somwhat flatter, the which anyway eaten worketh 

 excellently in the nature of a purge but very vehemently yet without any 

 perill. 



The Costive tree is a small tree. 



Another plante like a Bramble bushe which beareth a long yellowe 

 fruite whose shell is very harde & within it a hard berrye that beaten & 

 taken inwardly purgeth gentlye. 



Red pepper a fruite like our Barberies whose taste is terrible hot for the 

 tyme if it be chewed betweene the teeth, & therefore it is swallowed downe 

 whole & is founde to be of the same operation with red pepper & thence 

 borrowed the name. 



\Capsicuni sp.] 



In the bottome of the Sea upon the Rocks there is found growing 

 a large kinde of plante in the forme of a Vine leafe but farre more spreade 

 with veines of a pale red colour very strangely interlaced one into another 

 which they call the Feather whose vertue is altogether unknowne. 



There are since their plantation nourished white red & yellowe Potatos 

 Pineapples. Papaws, Plantains, the America breade, the Cassado roote, the 

 Indian Pumpion, Water Melon, Indic(js etc. 



Cassado a roote of a wonderfuU encrease & maketh very good white 

 breade but the iuice rank poison, yet boiled is better than wine. 

 {^Manihol ttlilissima.'] 



Pineapples neare as big as Artichokes, the most daintye tast of any 

 fruite. Apples, Prickly Pears & Pease, all differing from ours. 



A Pepper groweth in a little red huske as big as a Wallnutt 4 inches long 

 & small cods. 



Twoo sortes of Cotton : the silke Cotton as in the East Indies groweth 

 upon a small stalke as good for beds as downe : the other upon a shrub 

 & beareth a cod bigger then a Wallnutt, full of Cotton wooll. 



Locus tree, hard timber, 2 or 3 fadome about, of a greate height beareth 

 a cod full of meale will make breade in necessitye. 

 S^IIyinenaea courbatil.\ 



