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The first is an annual plant, with an herbace- 

 ous, branching, hairy stalk, rising to the height 

 nt six or ciiiht Feel it suppoited, otherwise the 

 b an< ties « ill Fall in the ground : the leave s pin- 

 n tc, of a verv rank disagreeable odour, com- 

 posed of four or ti\e pairs oi leaflets terminated 

 bv an odd one, cut on their edges, and ending 

 in acnte points : the flowers axillary on pretty 

 lung peduncles, eaoh sustaining several yellow 

 flower*, tunning a single long bunch. The 

 fruit is smooth, but - m, s ze and co- 



lour, Irom which Miller has formed two sorts. 



The liist o* these is commonly cultivated in 

 the South of Europe to put into soups and 

 sauces, to which it imparts an agreeable acid 

 flavour: the fruit is very large, compressed both 

 at top and bottom, and deeply furrowed all over 

 the sides, and ot a red or yellow colour. 



The latter round, about the size of a large 

 sherry, either yellow or red. It is a native of 

 South America, flowering from July to September. 



The second species has an annual root : the 

 stem stiffish : the leaves a hand in length, and 

 blunt .- the fruit red, large, depressed, so deeply 

 furrowed as to be in a manner cut into lobes, 

 hard: the branches diffused : the leaves ovate- 

 oblong, sinuate-repand : the Bowers solitary and 

 vioiet. It i< a native of China. 



The third has an annual stun, thick, twisted, 

 two feet high, with the branches reclining: the 

 leaves ovate, sinuate, large, few, scattered, on 

 thick petioles : the flowers pale violet; pedun- 

 cles axillary, thickened, bent down, one-flow- 

 ered, mosi commonly solitary, but not unfre- 

 quenlly two or three together : the berry large, 

 sliming, two-celled, many-seeded, esculent. It 

 is a native of Asia, Africa, and America. 



There are varieties with oblong violet -coloured 

 fruit, with an oblong white large fruit, with a 

 globular violet-coioiired tint, and with a globu 

 lar white or varu^aied fruit. 



The tourlh species has a perennial root, 

 v y, according I o Dr Beddoes, smelling like 

 the Fotatoe : the stem shrubby, roundish, branch- 

 ed, twisted and climbing to the height of several 

 feet : the Laves alternate, petioled, ovate-lance- 

 olate, quite entire, smooth, si .'. veiny; the 

 lower cordate, the upper more or less hastate: 

 the rlowers in racemes or < yme-sl •'; ed pa' 

 but not proj erly in cymes, opposite to a leaf or 

 terminating, nodding, verv elegant, purple with 

 two green dots at thi . f each segment, and 



the segments reiic >eme> elliptic, scar- 



let, very juicy, bitter and | -. It is a 



native of Europe, A.iica, &c. flowering in June 

 and July. 



'flare are varieties with flesh-coloured, with 

 white flowers, and with var.egatce. leaves. 



The fifih is an nrarmed tree, above the height 

 of a man. with a trunk as thick as the human 

 arm: but according to Miller it only rise- with a 

 sin', 'h ghn buy stalk six or eight feet high, co- 

 vend \vfth a brown bark, and divides into many 

 branches, which have spear-shaped leaves three 

 inches and a half long and an inch and half 

 broad ; th \ have a few smuated indenture? on 

 their edge-, and end iii acute points; they are 

 smooth, and ot a light-green colour : the flow- 

 ers are produced in small umbels from the sidi s 

 of the stalks, standing erect; they are pretty 

 . whne, and the petal is cut into five stax- 

 .d segments It is a native of America. 



The sixth rises with a strong woody sta'k four 

 or five teet high, and divides into many slender 

 stiff branches, having spear-shaped leaves turn- 

 ing backward : the flowers are white, and grow- 

 in small umbels, or singly on the side ot the 

 branches, to which thev sit close; they appear 

 from June to September, and are succeeded by 

 berries as large as small cherries, which ripen in 

 winter. It is a native of the island of Ma- 

 deira. 



There are varieties with red, and with a \ei- 

 lowish fruit. 



The seventh has the stems angular, erect, 

 rugged: the leaves oblong, decurrent into the 

 petiole, veined, smooth, rugged beneath, pin- 

 natifid : the peduncles branched : the corollas 

 violet-coloured, blunter than in Dulcamara, w ith 

 two greenish spots at the base of each lobe: an- 

 ther* yellow, shorter than the style : the berries 

 It is a native of Peru, flowering in July. 



The eighth species rises with a prickly herba- 

 ceous staTk three or four feet high ; the spines 

 are strong and crooked; the leaves are large, 

 angular, woolly, and armed with the like spines; 

 the rlowers are produced in bunches from the 

 side of the stalks; ihey are of a pale blue o lour, 

 and are succeeded by yellow Iran, the shape and 

 size of a Catherine Pear unci ted The plant is 

 annual here. It grows common in all the 

 West India Islands, where it is called Bachelor's 

 Pear. 



The ninth has the stem shrubby, two or three 

 feel high, sending out several woody branches 

 armed »itii short, stronp, yellowish spines: the 

 leaves an inch and half long, and an inch broad, 

 . (.11 both sides, and angularly indented, 

 armed with spines on both sides along the mid- 

 rib : the flowers come out in longish bunches Irom 

 the side of the stalks, and are bine : the berries 

 round, of a gold colour, as large as cherries. It 

 is a native of the East and Wot Indies. 



The tenth species has the stem in a manner 

 shrubby, but vet annual : the leaves rugged, 

 scarcely lonieutose, entire at the base, sinuat* 



