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Th BRITISH HERBAL. 
tops of the branches: they are of a beautiful flefh 
colour ; fometimes deeper, and fometimes white. 
The feed-veffel is {mall, and the feed minute. 
Gee ON 
It is a native of Virginia, and flowers in June. 
Plukenet calls it Lychnidea blattaria accedens 
Virginiana camphorata glabris foliis. 
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GUINEA PEPPER. 
CAPSICUM. 
’ HE flower confifts of a fingle petal, which is tubular at the bottom, divided into five pointed 
f fegments, and folded. 
The fruit is a large capfule, formed of a thick, coloured, rind; and contains numerous feeds in 
two cells. 
The cup is formed of a fingle piece, divided into five fegments, and remains with the fruit. 
Linnzus places this among the pentandria monogynia ; the threads being five in every flower, and 
the ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. 
He calls this fruit a berry without any pulp. 
x. Common Guinea Pepper. 
Capficum vulgare. 
The root is compofed of a great many thick 
and fpreading. fibres. 
The ftalk is round, thick, ftriated, very much 
branched, and a foot and half high. : 
The leaves are numerous, and of a very beau- 
tiful green: they ftand irregularly, and have long 
foorftalks. “They are large: broadeft at the bate, 
fmaller to the point, and not at all ferrated at 
the edges. 
The flowers are large and white : they ftand in 
the divifions of the branches. 
The fruit is large, long, and green at firft, 
but when ripe, of a beautiful red. Its high colour 
and fmooth furface give it the appearance of po- 
lifhed coral. , 
‘It is a native of Africa and of South America; 
and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Piper indicum vulgatifinum- 
Others, Capficum vulgare. ‘ 
2. Small-fruited Guinea Pepper. _ 
Capficum frugiu parvo. 
‘The root is compofed of a great number of 
long and thick fibres, 
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Its fhape and texture fhew the contrary. 
The ftalk is round, firm, upright, and a foot 
high, and is not much branched. 
The leaves are numerous, and ftand irregu- 
larly: they are large, and of a deep green: they 
ftand on long footftalks, and are broadeft toward 
the middle, and terminate in a fharp point. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a greenifh white : 
they do not rife fingly from the divifions of the 
branches, but in clufters, three or four toge- 
ther, from the fides of the mainftalk, fupported 
by a general pedicle, and each flower alfo by its 
own. Se 
The fruit is roundifh : “it is not bigger than a 
cherry ; and, when ripe, it is of the fame fine 
red colour and glofly furface with the common 
kind. ; 
It is a native of Aftica, and flowers in June. 
The fruit is hot to the tafte, but not fo violently 
as that of the other. 
The fruit of the common kind is ufed in fauces: 
when dryed and powdered, it makes what we call 
Cayan: pepper. ‘That of the laft defcribed fpecies 
1 is more efteemed in Africa than the other; hav- 
ing lefs acrimony and a better flavour. 
XII, 
ROG Mi 
RO Een. 
THE flower confifts of a fingle petal, which is formed into a fhort tube at the bottom, and divided 
into five broad fegments at the rim: the fruit is a fhort capfule, containing two cells, and 
crowned with the cup; which is of a fingle piece, divided into five pointed and dehitated feg- 
ments, 
Linnzeus places this among the pentandria monogynia ; the threads in each flower being five, and 
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the rudiment of the fruit fingle. 
Others have called thefe plants fpecies of campanula, but wrongly. 
Prickly Roella. 
Roella fpinofa. 
The root is long, 
colour. 
The ftalks are woody, numerous, flender, 
firm, tolerably erect, and eight or ten inches 
high ; fometimes they will gtow confiderably - 
fibrous, and of a brown larger. 
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The leaves ftand irregularly, and are {mall, 
flender, 
