Book Vi = Jlandof BARBADOS. 
The Witp-MariGcoLp; Lat. Afterifcus frutefcens. 
ae grows to about two Feet high, the main Stalk is fquare, and the 
4 Leaves broad, and rough; the Top, of the Stalks fupport yellow 
Flowers like thofe of Marigold; the Petals are fucceeded by a hard Button- 
like Cap/wla, which inclofes feveral flat {mall Seeds. 
Ponp-WEED. 
4 HIS Plant grows beftin wet moift Land, where it often rifes thrée Feet 
high ; its Roots are many and fibrous ; the main Stem and Branches 
are of a dark Green, and hairy, cloathed with Leaves four Inches long, and 
one broad; thefe are likewife high-ribbed, and have their Edges finely 
denticulated. From the Bofom of the Leaves rife many long Spikes thickly 
covered on the upper Side with very {mall, white, pentapetalous Flowers, 
and fucceeded by feveral minute Cap/ule, inclofed in a green Calyx; the 
former are fucceeded by feveral {mall black Seeds. 
. Thz Hoc-Surp. 
HIS is a trailing herbaceous Vine, cloathed with fharp-pointed Leaves ; 
from the Bofom of the Leaves rife feveral two-inch Footftalks, fup- 
porting an umbilical Group of monopetalous yellow Flowers, whofe Edges 
are flightly fegmented. From the Centre of the Flower rife feveral broad 
fhort Stamina, furrounding a Piftiltipp’d with bluifh pices; thefe are fuc> 
ceeded by feveral Cap/ula, inclofing, when ripe, feveral black Seeds. The 
~ Vine is of the herbaceous Kind, and much coveted by Hogs. From thence it 
derives this Name. 
The BRooM-WEED. 
THE Species of this Plant is divided into three Sorts, the White, 
the Red, and the large crumple-leaved Broom-weed ; a Decoétion of 
each Kind proves to be a {trong Diuretic; the Leaf of the white fort ex- 
__aétly refembles that of the Green-Tea. 
Togpacco; Lét. Nicotiana. 
HIS Plant hath been fo often and fo well defcribed, that I need only 
obferve, that it is here planted but very fparingly, and that chiefly by 
the Slaves, and the poorer Sort of White Inhabitants, but none for Exporta- 
tion, It isvery liable to be deftroyed at the Roots by a Grub, or large Worm, 
called by the common People Kiti/onia ; the Leaves are likewife often de- 
‘ftroyed by a {mall green Worm of the Eruca Kind. 
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