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Sope berries like a Musket bullet that washe as white as sope & goode 

 to eate : in the middle of the roote is a thinge like a Sedge, a very good 

 fruite : we call them Pengromes. 

 {Sa/>indiis.'\ 



A Pappaw is as greate as an apple, coloured like an Orrange & good to 



eate. 



[ Carica papaya^ 



A small hard nutt like a hasell nutt groweth close to the grounde & is 

 like that groweth on ye Palmetas : we call them Mucca nuts. 



A greate tree whose leaves are used to make a Mustarde. 



The Mancinell tree the fruite is poyson, it is an apple of a most pleasant 

 sweate smell of the bignes of a Crab : the Swine & birds eschewe to 

 eate of them. 



\_Hippomane tnancinella.'\ 



A tree like a Pine beareth a fruite so greate as a Muske Melon : hath 

 alwayes ripe fruite flowers & greene fruite which will refresh 2 or 3 men 

 very comfortably. 



Plum trees many, the fruite greate & yellowe, which but strained into 

 water will in 24 houres make very good drincke. 



Wild figge trees the fruite feede the hogs etc. 



The Gwane tree beareth a fruite so bigge as a Peare, good & wholsome. 



Palmetos of 3 severall sortes. 



\_Chamaerops glabra, C. excelsaJ] 



Cedar trees tall & greate. 



[The Pencil CeAax, /uniperus Bertmidiatta.'] 



Fustick trees the wood yellow, good for dying. 



\_Maclura tinctoria,'] 



Anotto. 



\_Bixa Orellana.'] 



[MS. f. 167. 



[This list, both in the order of the plants and in the wording of the descriptions, 

 so closely resembles Parkinson's list of Bermudan plants printed in 1640 at the 

 end of his Theatrum Botanicum, p. 1671, that it is probable that the printed 

 version was taken from this copy in an abbreviated form.] 



List of Nuts, Fruits, and Seeds, desiderata ' To have from 

 Virginia, New England etc' 



Ciprasse nuttes or young trees. 



The ripe Ackornes of their White Oake or red scarlet Oake & Black 



Oake. 

 Black & White Walnutt & a greate one. 



Cedars the berryes & the leaves, to see of what kinde they be. 

 Firre & Pine trees young & their apples. 

 Grapes white & red & a smaller black Grape growing in the Islandes, 



some ripe & sweeter. 

 Cherryes in clusters like grapes but not so good. 

 Black & Yellowe Plumes as big as a Damson. 

 White Thome berryes are as big as English Cherryes & esteemed better 



than Cherryes. 



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