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This wythe, dried and beaten, is very fibrous, somewhat like 

 horse-hair, and is probably the Old Man's Beard of the com- 

 mon people. 



The Banana bird builds its nest of some fibrous substance 

 like this, and hangs it curiously like a sailor's hammock, by 

 the ends. 



14. Cissus trifoliata. — Snake-leaf Withered Flowers. 



This beautiful climbing plant runs in fences, and has nu- 

 merous small florets of a crimson colour. 



15. Sperm acoce verticillata, L.—Wild Scabious. 



This is common in moist places, and is used in fomenta- 

 tions by the Negroes for the cure of the itch. 



16. Spermacoce tenuior, L. — Small-leaved Scabious. 



In cane-piece intervals, we find this, which, like others of 

 the same genus, is made use of as the above. 



17- Spermacoe hirta, L. — Common Scabious. 



In open pastures and dry savannahs, this species of scabi- 

 ous grows spontaneously. The stem is woody, the plant is 

 bushy, and the clusters of flowers pretty large. We only use 

 it in the cure of the itch, by way of bath, as the preceding. 



18. Spermacoce radicans, Aubl. 



This is a branched kind, which grows in moist places, and 

 the stems run a great way, sending off fibres at every joint. 

 It is used with the same intention as the above mentioned. 



