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The Natural Hiftory of the Book VIII, 
The Petals furround a great many yellow Stamina. 
Fach Flower is fucceeded by a {mall fharp-pointed Pod, inclofing a 
great many {mall Seeds. : fees 
. The only Ufe that I know of this Plant is, that it is boiled as Salad, 
and eaten by moft Negroes. 
The LARGEST SENSIBLE PLANT. 
As H_1S grows to be about four Feet high. The Branches are thickly 
cloathed with a great Number of oval {mall pennated Leaves, 
From among thefe rife feveral three-inch-long Stalks, bearing each of 
them, on their Extremities, an uncommon ftamineous Flower. The greateft 
Part of this is yellow; but on one Side of it appears a Tuft of pale- 
white Stamina, tipp’d with brownifh Apices. 
When thefe Stamina, as well as the yellow Part of the Flower, drop 
off, there appears an horizontal Group of {mall Pods of about an Inch 
and a quarter long, when ripe, and of a blackifh-brown Colour, inclofing 
feveral {mall flattifh black Seeds. 
Craps-EvE-VINE. 
GB HIS isa long {candent Vine, cloathed with fmall pennated Leaves 
each confifting of eleven Pair, with an odd one at the End. 
The Flowers, being papilionaceous, {mall, and white, are fucceeded by 
Pods, each inclofing two or three fcarlet Peas. 
Every one of thefe, at its Extremity, has a very black Spot, which 
makes it much refemble the Eye of a Crab. From thence it derives 
its Name. 
The Least WILD PEA-VINE. 
seu IS is a flender reddifh hairy Vine; cloathed at uncertain Di- 
{tances with {mall green Leaves, generally three in Number, upon 
one common Footftalk. * 
From the Bofom of the Leaves rife many yellow papilionaceous 
Flowers, each fucceeded by half-inch-long Pods, containing two fm 
Peas. 
The Witp PoTraTo-VINE. 
i ia HIS isa weak flender Vine, creeping upon the next Supporter 
it meets with ; but moft commonly it twines itfelf about Guiney- 
Corn-ftalks, and bloffoms about Chriffmas. Thefe are of the papiliona- 
ceous Kind, and of a beautiful Mixture of the moft fnowy-white am 
deep-fearlet Colours. 
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