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CHAP. Xxx. | 
Fucca Indica ee Periploca Virgimiana., 
" He Indian Fucca, or that wecallfo, isaPlant of 
fome reputation with Floriffs, and Periploca of 
Virginia, which Mr; Parkinfon calls Virgintan 
silk, is kept in fome good Gardens,both which, 
it thoughof different kinds, faces and qualities, we 
Piss, will comprehend in thisChapter , as alfo fome 
payinesien s-7: other Indian Plants that are contented to live with 
ns, and firft of that called, but not truely, 
Jucca Indica. 
picasso Sah ewe yA Ser 3), 
derous root with large fi- 
‘A bres, from whence fpringeth up a great round tuft of hard long 
hollow green leaves, with points as fharp as thorns , which always 
remain and fall not away, exceptit befome of thofe that ftand out- 
ward, which are recompenfed by others that {pring from the middle, 
from whence fometimes in anold and well kept plant, {pringeth up 
a ftrong round ftalk, divided into feyeral branches, which bear divers 
flowers, fomething refembling thofe of the common Fretilaria, but 
narrower at the bottom, containing fix leaves, che Gres Outer ten 
ed on the'backs from the bottom tothe middle with a reddith bluhh 
upon white, thefe flowers come forth in'faly, and {oon fallaway 
without bringing any, feeds in our Country, This Plant mult be fet 
ina large fquare Box, wide and deep, filled with good rich earth , 
where being houfed in Winter and detended from Frofts, it may re- 
main many years, it never increafeth with us, yet there are now ma- 
ny Planes cheveof in England, which have been brought from our 
Plantations in the We/t- Indies. 7 3 
3 a 4 : pe 3 ee a5 7 nantes prepay ote aes ——e 
He Indian Fucca hath a great thick tub 
Periploca Virginiana. 
V Ir Gintan silkisa Plant more refpected for being a ftranger; thar 
| tor the beauty of the flowers ; it rifeth up with one or more 
round ftalks almoft four foot high, fet at feveral joynts with two 
long broad-veined round-pointed green leaves,at the top of the ftalk, 
out of a skinny-hofe, cometh fortha great tuft of flowers, to the 
fjumber of thirty or fourty, hanging down on long-foot-ftalks , each 
flower confifting of five {mall hollow-leaves ; of a pale purplith co- 
— Jour, neither fair nor pleafant, after they are paft ; come long croked 
codds, ftanding upr ght, containing flat brown feeds; wrapped with-- 
in a great deal of fine foft whitith brown filk , the root is big, long 
and white, running far ander ground, and {pring up in many places 5 
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