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side, but with several seeds within, which are red- 

 dish and very acrid, but pleasant to the taste. 



These fruits are the lesser cardamoms, or, as 

 they are generally called, the cardamom seeds of 

 the shops. They are excellent to strengthen the 

 stomach, and assist digestion. They are also good 

 for disorders of the head, and they are equal to 

 any thing against colics : they are best, taken by 

 chewiiig them singly iu the mouth, and their taste is 

 not at all f h igreeable, 



The two other kinds are the middle cardamom, 

 a loi it MVi'y rarely met with, and the great 



canbmom, otherwise called the grain of paradise, 

 much better than the cardamoms. 



The Cauassx Titee. Caragna. 



A TALL and spreading tree of the West Indies, 

 the brandies are numerous, and irregular ; the 

 trunk is covered with a brown bark, the branches 

 with a paler, they are bridle ; the leaves are long 

 a ! narrow, of a pale green, and sharp pointed ; the 

 11 >v, .;-. are small, the fruit is roundish and of the 

 bigness of an apple. This is the best account we 

 nave of it, but ibis is far from perfect or satisfac- 

 tory in every respect. 



Ail i'iii we use of it is a resin which oozes 

 out of the bark, in the great heats ; this is brown, 

 souiewiuU soft, and we have it in oblong pieces, 

 roiled tip in rushes ; we put it only externally ; a 

 plaib'or made of it is good for disorders of the head, 

 and some say will cure the sciatica without internal 

 medicines, out this is not probable. 



Car line Thistle. Carlina. 



I HAYS observed that many plants are not 



