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The first is an annual plant, with an herbace- 

 ous, branching, hairy stalk, rising to the height 

 of six or eight feet it' su|>portccl, otherwise the 

 branches will fall to the ground : the leaves pin- 

 rute, of a very rank disngreeai)!e odour, com- 

 posed of ibur or five pairs of leaflets terminated 

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

 in acute points : the flowers axillary on pretty 

 long peduncles, each suslainins several yellow 

 flowers, forming a single long bunch. The 

 fruit is smooth, but varies in form, size and co- 

 lour, from which Miller has formed two sorts. 



The first of these is commonly cultivated in 

 the South of Europe to put into soups and 

 sauces, to which it in)parts an agreeable acid 

 flavour: the fiuit is very large, compressed both 

 at top and bottom, and deeply furrowed all over 

 the sides, and of a red or yellow colour. 



The latter round, about the size of a large 

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

 South America, flowering from July to September. 



Tlie second species has an annual root : the 

 Stem stiflish : 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, sinuaie-repand : the flowers solitary and 

 violet. It is a native of China. 



The third has an annual stem, 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, most commonly solitary, but not unfre- 

 quently two or three together : the berry large, 

 shining, 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-coloured fruit, and with a globu- 

 lar white or variegated fruit. 



The fourth species has a perennial root, 

 woody, according to Dr. Ikddocs, smelling like 

 the Potatoe: the stem shrubby, roundish, branch- 

 ■ ed, twisted and climbing to the height of several 

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

 olate, quite entire, smooth, soft, veinv ; the 

 lower cordate, the upper more or less hastate : 

 the flowers in racemes or cyme-shaped panicles, 

 but not properly in cymes, opposite to a leaf or 

 terminating, nodding, very elegant, purple with 

 two green dots at the base of each segment, and 

 the segments rcflexed : the berries elliptic, scar- 

 let, very juicy, bitter and poisonous. It is a 

 native of Europe, Africa, &c. flowering in June 

 and July. 



There are varieties with flesh-coloured, with 

 uhite flowersj and with variegated leaves. 



The fifth is an unarmed tree, above the height 

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

 arm : but according to Miller it only rises with a 

 smooth shrubby sialk six or eight feet hioh, co- 

 \ere(l with 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 ; they have a few sinuated indentures on 

 their edges, and end in acute points ; they arc 

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

 ers are produced in small umbels from the sides 

 of the stalks, standing erect ; they are pretty 

 large, white, and the petal is cut into five star- 

 pointed segments. It is a native of America. 



The sixth rises with a strong woody stalk four 

 or five feet high, and divides into many slender 

 stifle branches, having spear-shaped leaves turn- 

 ing backward : the flowers are white, and grow 

 in small umbels, or singly un the side of the 

 branches, to which they 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 yel- 

 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, with 

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

 thers yellow, shorter than the style : the berries 

 ovate. It is a native of Peru, flowering in July. 



The eighth species rises with a pricklv herba- 

 ceous stalk three or four feet high ; the spines 

 are strong and crooked ; the leaves are large, 

 angular, woolly, and armed with the like spines; 

 the flowers are produced in bunches from the 

 side of the stalks; they are of a pale blue colour, 

 and are succeeded by yellow fruit, the shape and 

 size of a Catherine Pear inverted. The plant is 

 annual here. It grows conunon in all the 

 West India Islands, where it is called Bachelor's 

 Pear. 



The ninth has the stem shrubby, two or three 

 feet high, sending out several woody branches 

 armed v* ith short, strong, yellowish spines : the 

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

 woolly on both sides, and angularly indented, 

 armed with spines on both sides along the mid- 

 rib : the flowers come out in longish bunches from 

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

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

 is a native of the East and West Indies. 



The tenth species has the stem in a manner 

 shrubby, but yet annual : the leaves rugged, 

 scarcely tomeiitose, entire at the base^ sinuate; 



