t 1 4 T/>e Natural Hifiory 



g. Mijletoe Aloes. This grows from the 

 Boughs and rotten Trunks of Trees 3 the 

 Leaves are very like Aloes. 



4. Amotto. Is a Shrub, with large cor- 

 dated Leaves 5 with five leaved Rofe-like 

 Blufh-colour'd Flowers growing in Gutters : 

 they make a faffron coloured Indico of the 

 Seed, &titf&Amotto% with which they dye 

 raw Silk. 



5. The Burr. Has broad Leaves ferra- 

 ted and pointed 5 its Burs grow inRundles, 

 twelve or more together : they are very 

 troublefome in travelling both to Man and 

 Beaft, flicking to their Hair, &c 



6. Button-tree. Its Flowers fmall and 

 yellowifh ^ the Heads are like Alder Cones, 



7. BraJilCaUvancies. Its Flowers yellow, 

 with red Veins ; the Pods flat and twifted, 

 each holding four white Peafe, which tafte 

 well : they flourifh all the Year. 



8. Caffada. Rifes feven or eight foot 

 high, thick as ones Thumb, fix or feven 

 Leaves grow from one Stalk, Star fa(hion'd$ 

 its Flowers fmall five leaved, pale yellow, 

 and very thrummy in the middle : its 

 Root large as ones thigl), three or four 

 foot long, and yields a thick Milk, which 

 is deadly poyfon : Neverthelefs, by boyl- 



- ing and ordering of it, they make a whole- 

 fome Bread. 



9. Cotton-hujk. Has a Rofe-like Flower, 

 yellow, with a Purple bottom 3 ^ts Fruit 

 bears the Cotton. 



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