ANGUIS @#LAGELLY FORMS 
The Coach-Whip Snake. ae au fouet de Cocher. 
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gH IS is a very long flender 
* Snake, particularly the hind 
| = : part ; it diminifhes gradually AiG 
to the il 5 ; "and, from the refemblance of bie: 3 we quetie 5 cS la reffemblance quil 
a coach whip, has received its name. The g avec un fouet de cocher, lui a fait donner 
colour of it isbrown ; it is very aCtive and 2 yom gvil a: fa couleur eft brune : il eff 
nimble, running very fwiftly. They are fort aftif, CP fort fouple: il court Pune 
inoffenfive ; yet the Jvdians report (not grande viteffe: il weft point dangereux : 
without gaining many profelytes to their cepemdant les Indiens affitrent qu’ils peut 
filly belief) that they will, by a jirk of their féparer un homme en deux Pun coup de 
tail, feparate a man in two parts: they are queie 5 & ce conte ne manque pas détre 
generally about the fize of the figure, cri de bien des gens. Ces Serpens font or- 
though fometimes they are twice as big. fingirement de la grandeur de la figure, 
They retain their colour in all ftages. quoi qwvil y en ait de deux fois plus grands: 
ils gardent toujours la méme couleur. 
Lychuis Hie Virginiana, jiore a he coccineo : fe Mufcipula Regia, 
D. Banifter Phytogr. Tab. 203. I. 
HE height of this Plant is ufually about a ] = we de cette Plante eft communément d en- 
foot, rifing with feveral ftems, which divide von un pie: elle fort de terre avec plufieurs 
into fimaller ftalks ; on which grow the flowers on 7 iges of if Subdivifens. en petites branches, fur lefquelles 
footftalks half an inch long: the flower is red, 74 aiffe nt la fleurs attachées a des f lets Lun demi 
tubulous, confifting of five petals, with a deep [a les fle ‘ile ce i — compofce de cing 
notch at the end of each, befides an angular point feuilles, gui ont chacune une ental le profo onde a leur 
extremitée, outre une pot ointe angulaire de chaque cété : 
on each fide: the leaves grow oppofite to one ano- 
h echt fottalle Th Peay found = feuilles Sont o vis-a-vis les unes des autres fans quetes: 
t er without footitalxs. a e a Bere 2 y : n trouve ordinairement ces Plantes dans les bois fablon- 
in the fandy woods near Charles Town in Carolina. ee qui me ue GCharlactitens ndans la Caroline. 
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