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The Natural Fiiftory of the Book VI, 
could meet with any in the Ifland, or to‘trouble my Reader with the 
Method of making Indigo from it. 
The Jaruor-VINE. 
HLA T is here called the Jallop-Vine, grows neat the Houfe of 
the Honourable Samuel Roufe, Efg; Its Stalk yields a milky 
Juice. It bears an heart-like Leaf, anda Bell-flower. 
SORREL. 
% UTE have here, ‘pefidés ‘the Wood and, the Garden-Sorrel, another 
tall fhrubby Sort, diftinguifhed by their Colour into the White, 
and the Red. ‘Thefe grow ftrong, and are feemingly ligneous, though 
they are of an annual Growth, produced from the Seed. Their Roots are 
"many and fibrous. 
The main Stalk grows often to be above three Feet high, red and — 
hollow. The Leaves, which are deeply digitated, and. their middle Ribs 
‘and Stalks reddifh, are fet on alternately. ‘The Flower confifts of five pale- 
white Leaves, gyrally incircling, one another, and each deeply flain’d with 
a purple Spot at the Bottom, and inclofing a fhort ftrong Piftil furrounded 
with farinaceous Dutt. 
The Petals are likewife incircled with five fharp-pointed capfular Leaves, 
which, when the Petals drop off, clofe together into a conic-fhap’d Pod. , 
This, when ripe, opens into five Sections, difcovering a ruffet Berry, which 
likewife, when ripe, opens into five Seétions, and difcovers a great many 
blackifh Seeds. 
Thefe Leaves, as well as the Berry, are decorated as well as fupported 
by a ftrong Calyx, which on the Outfide is divided into nine tharp- 
pointed Sections. he 
Tlie red Leaves, and Flower-cup, being thick and very juicy, “are, 
when tipe, feethed in boiling Water, which in a few Hours extraéts both 
their Colour and Strength. This Decoétion, work’d with Sugar, makes 
a very ftrong reddifh heady Wine; and as thefe Plants are of two Kinds, : 
the Red and the White, their refpective Wines will be of thefe different 4 
Colours, but of the fame Tatfte. 
The red capfular Leaves, when young (firft ftew’d,) make excellent 
‘Tarts. 
The Fruit is generally ripe about Movember and December. 
“The Wid Sena, or the WiLd ‘Cassta Fistua 5 Lat. 
Colutea. 
H1S buthy Shrub grows to about four Feet high ; the main Stalk 
pithy and brittle; the Branches thickly cloathed with round deep- 
: ; \ green 
