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6. Nux vesicaria forte brownish bladders vr^^ ij round pale coloured 



shining seeds like ours but farre lesse. Found on small trees 

 in the woods. 



[? Staphylea trifoliata.'] 



7. Euonymus forte growing on a dogwood tree : a reddish great seed 



wt'i huskes like it. 



8. A kind of Hawes much eaten by the Indians blackish flat kernells 



like the Pishamin : w*Mn black shining thin huskes with little or 

 no pulpe. 



9. Virginia silke growing in a long white thick cod : flat browne seede with 



silken dowe Periploca forte. 



10. Palma christi brought thether & thrives well. 



\_Ricimis cotnmwiis.'] 



1 1 . Maye Apple seede a blackish browne seede lesse than Stramonium, 



the flower white & the fruit much eaten by them. 



12. The greate Snake roote small long yellowish seed like Langdebeefe 



but scalye & downy among, being greene it hath a milke more 

 bitter than aloes. 



[In the Morisonian Herbarium at Oxford is ' The great Rattle Snake root of 

 Virginia, a rare Cordial], Mr. Willis 1676'. It is Asaruni virginicum L.] 



13. A kinde of Persicaria but higher by much then ours, a brownish 



black . . . flattish seed in whitish skin, huskes or skins. 



14. A kinde of double Yarrowe. 



15. Found in the woods. A pale browne pointed berrye set in a fine 



long-leaved huske like Guaiacana & 3 or 4 halfe round crested 

 or straked kernells or skin. 



16. The berrye of a plante whose juice is good red incke. Solanum 



Virginianum sorte. 



17. Seede of the herbe Carales, so called fr5 a Captain that said it was 



much eaten in East India & in a tyme of scarsitye there also : 

 a small black shining seade like Amaranthus purpureus, not 

 Milium nigrum. 



18. Small Snake roote seede. N" 7. 



19. A duskye roundish forme or solid graine as big as the heade of 



Scrophularia, with a white kernell in it : common in the woods. 



20. A long duskye gray pod small at the lower ende & bigger round 



& crooked pointed at the other opening in 2 partes with one 

 rugged brownish pease there lying & the shewe of another at 

 the bottome, but emptye. Found on small lowe imbracing 

 vines. 



21. Virginia Lentills small short blackish thin cods somwhat thick on both 



edges or sides & much smaller black lentill-like seede within. 



22. Water melons flat darck graye seede like CitruUs. 



23. Red water melons flat darck graye seade like unto the other but 



a little longer pointed. 



24. Stramonium forte : it came without name. 



[MS. f. 21. 



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