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HeEn-turp, or Dart-Woop. 
pees grows in fpiral Branches from the Root, but feldom above 
Twelve Feet high, each feemingly jointed at about Twelve Inches 
afunder. 
The Wood is of a very clofe Grain, and heavy; very little inferior in 
Solidity to Box-wood. 
It hath the Name of Dart-wood, from the former Ufe made of it in 
Lances and Darts; with which, by the Permiffion of our Laws, Negro 
Watchmen were to be armed, to defend their own, or the Goods of their 
Mafters, from Robbers. However, a late Cuftom hath allowed thefe the 
Ufe of Swords. ; 
The Name of Hen’s-turd was likewife given it from the blackifh un- 
favoury Pulp of the Berry, which it bears. 
This fucceeds a {mall white Bloffom. 
The Berry itfelf, when ripe, is of a brownifh Colour. 
The Cr as-BusH, or the SEA-SIDE LAUREL. 
q| HIS is a {mall bufhy Shrub, thickly cloathed with green ftiff fhine- 
ing Leaves, many in Number, and about Three Inches long, 
Thefe are narrower at the Stalk than their Extremities. _ 
_ They bear many apetalous Flowers, fucceeded by brownifh Berries. 
Thefe, when ripe, are greedily eaten by the Land-crabs. 
The Waite SacE; Lat. CAMARA SALVIA. 
ape His is a thick bufhy Shrub, growing to about Two Feet high. 
Its Leaves are {mall and rough, of a whitifh Grey, and thick-fet, 
generally Three together round the Stalk, in a triangular manner ; their 
Edges being bluntly ferrated. 
The Flowers are of the galeated, monopetalous kind, divided at their 
Extremities into Four unequal Segments, of a pale Red, altering gene- 
rally at the Dif/cus to a bright-yellow Colour. ‘ 
Thefe Flowers are many in Number, fupported upon Stalks rifing from 
the Bofom of the Leaves; the tubulous Part ferving for Seed-veffels. 
Each Flower is fucceeded by a fmall purplifh Berry. 
Thefe ferve for Food to Sparrows, and other Birds ; and the Leaves of 
the Shrub, being either boiled into a Deco@ion, or made into Tea, are 
an excellent Sudorific and Peétoral. , 
It grows chiefly in dry Places, and flourifhes all the Year round. 
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