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year, for it grows very luxuriant and quick, and the oftener it is 

 cut, the better it thrives ; but it ought to be tranfplanted from time 

 to time into fre(h foil, to prevent its dwindhng. 



97. Branched Calalue. (f f'^^^''^ ^/"'^'^^"^ difufmt Br. 174. 

 ^' \ooianum Jownijerum, '■IheJ. Zey. 



It is remarked of this plant, that it is equally common in Europe, 

 and though of a heavy ftrong fmell, and very narcotic quality in cold 

 climates, it is void of both in Jamaica, when drefled by fire. It is 

 in daily ufe here for food, and the leaves found by long experience 

 to be a pleafant vvholefome green. ThQfmooth red calalue^ or atri- 

 plex, has the fame ufe and good quality when boiled. 



98. Prickly Calalue. — Amaranthns aculeatm rufefcens. 



This is frequent in the mountains and lower hills, and ufed as a 

 green, being univerfally efteemed a wholefome agreeable vegetable. 



99. Spanish Calalue. — Phytolacca ere£la Jiinplex. 



This is cultivated in mod of the kitchen-gardens; and in con- 

 ftant ufe as a palatable wholefome green. The tender flalks arc 

 no bad fuccedanea for afparagus. 



100. Mountain Calalue, Pokeweed, Surinam or Juckata 

 Calalue. — Phytolacca ajjiirgens ramoja. 



It is indigenous to this ifland, and found in all the cooler hills 

 and mountains, where it grows very luxuriantly. It rifes generally 

 to the height of four or five feet, divided towards the top. It is 

 called eirher red 01 white, from the colour of the flower-ftalks, for 

 all the branches terminate in long and tender fpikes of thofe colours. 

 The leaves and tender {hoots are frequently ufed for greens. 



The infpifiated juice has been thought a fpecific, or at leafl a very 

 powerful remedy, in open cancers, applied in form of a plaifler. 



The root, pounded when frefh, and applied as a poultice to the 

 ulcers of pocky mules and horfes, performs a certain cure. The 

 drefiing muft be renewed every day, and, previous to the application, 

 the parts affeded are waflied clean with a mixture of fait and lime- 

 juice in warm watery and a drench of flour of brimftone in gruel, 



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