The Natural Hiftory 



CHAP- IX. 



Of H £ R B S. 



i. T£ OUND Adam's Apple. Its Flowers five 

 leaved with Purple Veins ; the Fruit round, 

 fmooth, and when ripe yellow ; fomewhat bigger 

 than a Crab : thefe are eaten boiled with Oyl and 

 Pepper. 



2. Pine Apple. Its Leaves refemble Aloes ; the 

 Flower three leaved, and blue ; its Fruit very plea- 

 fant and well known. 



3. Amarainth4ike Herb. Is woody, and grows a- 

 bout 2 Foot high ; at every Branch comes a red 

 Head of fmall Flowers on an Inch Footftalk fuftain- 

 ed by a fmall Nettle-like Leaf. 



4. White Arfmart. Bears long flender white Flow- 

 ers, Willow Leaves, and knotty Stalks. 



5. Avens. Rifes a Yard or higher, Branches at 

 the Joynts, where are generally 5 Leaves wing'd 

 and cut like ours. 



6. Tway blade Avens. Grow fometimes a Yard 

 high ; it Branches from the Joynts, where are 2 fer- 

 rated Leaves 5 or 6 Inches long ; at the Tops grow 

 fmall 5 kayed yellow Flowers, fcenting fomewhat 



"' like Chamomil. 



7. Battata's. Have Leaves fome cor dated, o- 

 ; thers angular, bears neither Flower nor Fruit ; the 

 Root is milkey, very white within, and pale yellow 

 without. 



8. Red B at tat a 9 s. Thefe are red throughout, 

 and tinge the Hands blue, and a Knife black. 



9. Sea-berry. Bears thick juicy Leaves like Purf- 

 lain, but much bigger ; the Flowers like a Gilly- 

 flower > 5 leaved and white, with black -Alining O- 



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