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The Natural Hiftory of the Book VI, 
numerous {trong Filaments, fomewhat coarfer than what is peeled off from 
our Englifh Hemp-plant : This ferves to make Ropes, and fuch Ufey, 
The Flowers are yellow, fucceeded by {mall Cap/ule, inclofing a great 
~ Number of fmall black Seeds. The Stalks and Leaves are thickly cove. 
ed with ftiff Hairs, fharp even to a Pricklinefs. The Leaf js bluntly 
ferrated, and high-rib’d; in Length about two Inches, and in Breadth 
about an Inch and an half. 
The Barsapos PINK. 
fee IS is a very flender, bufhy, creeping Vine, full of fmall Side- 
branches, cloathed with numerous very narrow grafiy Leaves, ge. 
nerally fet on alternately. The Flowers, which are tubular and Monope- 
talous, are of a deep Scarlet. Their Ore are divided into five Segmenty, 
the intermediate Spaces forming as many fharp-pointed Angles. The In. 
fide of the tubular Part of the Flower appears whitifh. From this Part 
rife feveral Stamina, tipped with whitifh Apices. The Flowers are fucceed- 
ed by fmall Cap/ule, each containing a blackifh Seed. 
The Hop-SHrus; Lat. Meliffa altiffima elobularia. 
i ie IS Shrub grows to be about five Feet high. The Leaves are 
{mooth, and round-pointed, and of about three Inches long, and 
above one broad. Thefe are fet on the Branches in an alternate Order, 
The Flowers, which ftand on long ligneous Pedicles, are each fucceeded 
by very thin brownith Cap/ule, refembling at a Diftance Hops, and of 
a triangular Shape. This is blown out like a Bladder between each Angle, as 
well ‘as every Angle terminating in a thin Border, or A/a. 
| MonkKEy-VINE. 
T HIS is a long creeping Vine, of a dark-reddifh Colour, and hairy. 
The Leaves are of an Heart-fafhion, but fomewhat auriculated near 
the Stalk. From the Bottom of the Leaves rife many long tubular white 
Flowers, whofe Ore are much expanded, and ting’d with Purple. From 
the Centre of the Flower rife feveral white ‘Stamina, tipp'd with long 
white pices. The Flowers are fucceeded by a {mall round whitith Cap- 
Jula, each inclofing fix black angular Seeds, not much larger nor unlike 
Onion-feeds. 
PLANTAIN-SHoT; Lat. Cannacorus. 
F fl NHIS Plant grows generally in fhady Places, and often to five Feet 
high. Its main Stalk is tubular, cloathed at different Diftances with 
very fmooth green Leaves, in Make and Subftance very much refembling a 
Plantain-Leaf. Thefe are about nine Inches long, and five broad. The 
I Flowers 
