ANGU IS e rubro & albo varius. 
The corn Snake. 
Par Snake is fometimes twice 
as big as the figure. It is all 
‘ over beautifully marked with 
and white, which feems to have given 
it the name of Corn-Snake ; there being 
fome Maize or Indian Corn much re- 
fembling this in colour; they are robbers 
of hen-roofts, otherwife they are harm- 
lefs. They are common in Virginia and 
Carolina. 
Serpent de Bled. 
“i fois auffi grand que la figure: 
2 il eft par tout marqué de rouge 
dune maniere fort agréables 
cp if femble que Ceft de la qwil a pris fou 
nom de Serpent de Bled; car il y a une 
efpece de mais, ou de bled d Inde, qui lus 
reffemble beaucoup en couleur, Ces Serpens 
volent les poulaillers, & ceft le feul mal 
gu ils font. | 
<P @ fa Caroline. 
Ils font communs a@ la Virginie 
Fifcum Caryophylloides ramofum, floribus minimis albis. 
HIS Plant from a bulbous root rifes with 
four or five, and fometimes more fucculent 
leaves ; which, before it flowers, refemble both in 
root and leaf a Warciffus : from the middle of the 
leaves rifes a flender ftiff ftem, about eighteen inches 
ong; at the upper part of which are alternately 
placed its flowers, fingly on fhort foot{talks. Th 
flower is hollow, the back of the cup growing into 
a pointed petal; and from the bottom of the cup, 
on each fide, {preads two pointed petals: the whole 
flower of a light green ; within the hollow of it are 
ellow ftamina. Thefe flowers are fucceeded by 
{mall femilunar feed veffels, both ends being blunt, 
and one bigger than the other, containing very {mall 
dufty feeds. They grow on bare rocks on many of 
the Bahama Iflands, and fometimes upon trees, in 
the manner of Miffe/toe. 
Ce E Plantes éleve dune racine bulbeufe, avec 
freuriffe, elle reffemble par 
Ja racine &§ par fes feuilles a un narciffe: il s éleve 
du milieu des feuilles une tige mince & roide, longue 
d’ environ dix huit pouces: les fleurs font placées alter- 
nativement a fon extremité, chacune étant foutenue par 
un pédicule court : la fleur eft creufe, le derriere du 
calice fe changeant en une feuille pointue ; & du fon 
du calice il s ctend de chaque cote deux feuilles pointues : 
oft dun verd clair 5 &% dans les vuides 
Il fuccede a ces fleurs de 
petites femences menues comme de la pouffiere. Ces 
a fur 
